Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Omya International AG

18 pending office actions • 13 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (4)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
16
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (6%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only16 (89%)
§112 only1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

17
Life Sciences
94% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LAN, YAN 2 62.9% +22.2%
ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1 60.1% +49.5%
ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 1 74.3% +24.2%
LIU, TRACY 1 54.9% +28.0%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 42.5% +47.2%
PEPITONE, MICHAEL F 1 74.3% +22.2%
WEISS, PAMELA HL 1 54.0% +46.9%
ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1 48.6% +43.6%
KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1 70.6% +38.5%
ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1 54.4% +39.2%

Interview Candidates (11)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17996795 COATINGS COMPRISING ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS FOR FOOD PACKAGING LAN, YAN 96d overdue
18546770 ANTI-POLLUTION AGENT LIU, TRACY 81d overdue
18246039 KIT COMPRISING SURFACE-TREATED CALCIUM CARBONATE AND A PEROXIDE AGENT FOR IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE/POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITIONS PEPITONE, MICHAEL F 72d overdue
17928034 REINFORCED ELASTOMER COMPOSITION ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 31d overdue
18245639 A MOISTURE-CURING ONE-COMPONENT POLYMER COMPOSITION COMPRISING A NATURAL GROUND CALCIUM CARBONATE (GCC) WEISS, PAMELA HL 10d overdue
18579422 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GRANULES COMPRISING A MAGNESIUM ION-COMPRISING MATERIAL ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 9d
18560255 WEAR PLATES FOR AGITATOR MILLS ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 9d
17999486 HYDROPHOBIC ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1612 3
1762 2
1767 2
1782 2
1617 1
3725 1
1614 1
1732 1
1731 1
1785 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18579422 METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GRANULES COMPRISING A MAGNESIUM ION-COMPRISING MATERIAL ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1617 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 15, 2024
18560255 WEAR PLATES FOR AGITATOR MILLS ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S 3725 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18546770 ANTI-POLLUTION AGENT LIU, TRACY 1614 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Aug 16, 2023
18252548 POLYMER COMPOSITIONS, RELATED METHODS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending May 11, 2023
18246039 KIT COMPRISING SURFACE-TREATED CALCIUM CARBONATE AND A PEROXIDE AGENT FOR IMPROVING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYETHYLENE/POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITIONS PEPITONE, MICHAEL F 1767 §112 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Mar 21, 2023
18245639 A MOISTURE-CURING ONE-COMPONENT POLYMER COMPOSITION COMPRISING A NATURAL GROUND CALCIUM CARBONATE (GCC) WEISS, PAMELA HL 1732 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
18157666 LAYER INCLUDING CALCIUM CARBONATE LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Jan 20, 2023
17928034 REINFORCED ELASTOMER COMPOSITION ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE 1767 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Nov 28, 2022
17928212 A COMPOSITION FORMED FROM A CALCIUM OR MAGNESIUM CARBONATE-COMPRISING MATERIAL AND A SURFACE-TREATMENT COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE CROSS-LINKABLE COMPOUND KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Nov 28, 2022
17999486 HYDROPHOBIC ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS ABBAS, ABDULRAHMAN MUSTAFA 1612 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17998050 CO-GROUND ACTIVE(S) COMPRISING PRODUCT COMPRISING SURFACE-REACTED CALCIUM CARBONATE WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH 1612 Other Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2022
17996795 COATINGS COMPRISING ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS FOR FOOD PACKAGING LAN, YAN 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022
17756678 DRY COMPOSITIONS, EMULSIONS AND/OR FLUIDS FOR CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL SUN PROTECTION AND USE THEREOF ATKINSON, JOSHUA ALEXANDER 1612 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 31, 2022
17762453 EXPANDED GRANULAR MATERIAL CONSISTING OF MINERAL MATERIAL CHAU, LISA N 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Mar 22, 2022
17753037 BAKING POWDER TRAN, LIEN THUY 1793 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Feb 16, 2022
17624863 STABILIZER COMPOSITION FOR SILYL-MODIFIED POLYMER SEALANTS NERANGIS, VICKEY M 1763 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2022
17595672 CaCO3 COATED WITH MALEIC ANHYDRIDE GRAFTED POLYETHYLENE AND/OR MALEIC ANHYDRIDE GRAFTED POLYPROPYLENE AND AT LEAST ONE HYDROPHOBIZING AGENT SASTRI, SATYA B 1762 §103 Final Rejection 100d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2021
17605891 MAGNESIUM ION-CONTAINING MATERIALS AS WHITE PIGMENTS IN ORAL CARE COMPOSITIONS NGUYEN, NGOC-ANH THI 1615 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Oct 22, 2021

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