Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG is managing 12 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 12 distinct examiners, showing a high degree of examiner variety. This distribution of 12 pending actions among 12 distinct examiners suggests that the company must manage 12 different individual prosecution styles simultaneously.
The portfolio spans 9 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical footprint within its primary technology area. Jacob Benjamin Stiles is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The presence of 9 distinct art units relative to the 12 pending actions suggests that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials are technically diverse, requiring engagement with many different specialized groups at the patent office.
For a patent practitioner, this distribution means that strategies successful with one examiner may not translate to others in the portfolio. With 12 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, the prosecution landscape is highly fragmented. Practitioners should prepare for a wide array of examiner preferences and art unit specific interpretations of the 12 pending office actions across this diverse portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| PATEL, RONAK C | 1 | 51.2% | +56.4% |
| O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1 | 65.7% | +12.5% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.0% | +18.5% |
| WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1 | 80.0% | -4.5% |
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.3% | -1.7% |
| WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1 | 57.1% | +50.0% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.4% | +44.2% |
| MORALES, RICARDO D | 1 | 81.2% | +17.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260100 | COMPLEX OXIDE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS WITH LOW THERMAL INERTIA AND LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | WIESE, NOAH S | 37d overdue |
| 17641941 | LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 7d |
| 18086963 | DEVICE FOR DRAWING FILAMENTS TO FORM A NONWOVEN FABRIC | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 41d |
| 18729756 | SILVER BRAZE ALLOYS FOR POLY-CRYSTALLINE DIAMOND CUTTERS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| 18705809 | HIGH PURITY NI -CR-W-MO-LA ALLOY FOR POWDER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| 18264086 | OXIDATION BARRIER MATERIALS AND PROCESS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| 18271160 | CMAS-RESISTANT TOPCOAT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | — |
| 18268520 | LIGHTWEIGHT CORROSION-RESISTANT WEAR-RESISTANT BRAKE DISC, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706519 | POROUS AGGLOMERATES AND ENCAPSULATED AGGLOMERATES FOR ABRADABLE SEALANT MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PATEL, RONAK C | — |
| 18705809 | HIGH PURITY NI -CR-W-MO-LA ALLOY FOR POWDER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| 18264086 | OXIDATION BARRIER MATERIALS AND PROCESS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| 18260095 | THERMALLY STABLE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS THAT EXHIBIT IMPROVED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND EROSION RESISTANCE | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | — |
| 18268520 | LIGHTWEIGHT CORROSION-RESISTANT WEAR-RESISTANT BRAKE DISC, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 18022583 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED MICROWAVE SHIELDING PERFORMANCE | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 17927890 | HDH (HYDRIDE-DEHYDRIDE) PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF BRAZE ALLOY POWDERS | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729756 | SILVER BRAZE ALLOYS FOR POLY-CRYSTALLINE DIAMOND CUTTERS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18706519 | POROUS AGGLOMERATES AND ENCAPSULATED AGGLOMERATES FOR ABRADABLE SEALANT MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18705809 | HIGH PURITY NI -CR-W-MO-LA ALLOY FOR POWDER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18264086 | OXIDATION BARRIER MATERIALS AND PROCESS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1732 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18271160 | CMAS-RESISTANT TOPCOAT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS | WASHVILLE, JEFFREY D | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
| 18260100 | COMPLEX OXIDE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS WITH LOW THERMAL INERTIA AND LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | WIESE, NOAH S | 1731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18260095 | THERMALLY STABLE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS THAT EXHIBIT IMPROVED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND EROSION RESISTANCE | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18268520 | LIGHTWEIGHT CORROSION-RESISTANT WEAR-RESISTANT BRAKE DISC, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18022583 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED MICROWAVE SHIELDING PERFORMANCE | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 17927890 | HDH (HYDRIDE-DEHYDRIDE) PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF BRAZE ALLOY POWDERS | MORALES, RICARDO D | 1738 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2022 |
| 17641941 | LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
| 18086963 | DEVICE FOR DRAWING FILAMENTS TO FORM A NONWOVEN FABRIC | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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