Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novamont S P A currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct examiners and multiple art units, indicating a highly fragmented prosecution landscape. Because each pending action is handled by a different individual, the company cannot rely on a single point of contact or a unified examiner perspective to streamline its current docket.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ZHANG, MICHAEL N, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a majority of the workload, as the total volume is spread evenly. Practitioners should prepare for varied negotiation styles across the different units, as the lack of concentration suggests diverse examination standards may apply to the applications. The 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner may serve as a bellwether for how the other examiners will approach their respective cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.8% | +32.9% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 45.9% | +35.9% |
| SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005414 | REUSE OF BIOPLASTICS IN POLYMERISATION | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 100d overdue |
| 18258816 | HIGH-DISINTEGRATION MULTILAYER BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 66d overdue |
| 17996233 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ITEMS | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 26d overdue |
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
| 17788419 | POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FILMS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DEGRADABILITY | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18258816 | HIGH-DISINTEGRATION MULTILAYER BIODEGRADABLE FILM | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18005414 | REUSE OF BIOPLASTICS IN POLYMERISATION | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18004684 | ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS OF WASTE CELLULOSE | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 17996233 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ITEMS | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17788419 | POLYMER COMPOSITION FOR FILMS HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND DEGRADABILITY | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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