Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plantics Holding B V is managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each action is assigned to a different person, totaling 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and units shows a broad distribution of the current workload. For practitioners, this means there are no overlapping examiners to provide a consistent point of contact across the 3 pending office actions. The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that the company is pursuing multiple technical paths within its field.
COONEY, JOHN M is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved, the company must navigate a variety of examination styles and technical standards. This distribution suggests that the company's applications in the Chemistry & Materials area cover a wide range of sub-technologies. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 3 separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of challenges and examiner expectations. The fact that there are 3 pending office actions indicates a moderate level of activity in the company's patent pipeline. Coordinating responses across 3 distinct art units will be essential to maintain a cohesive patent strategy and avoid any conflicting statements during prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COONEY, JOHN M | 1 | 62.9% | +21.2% |
| SHAH, SAMIR | 1 | 36.7% | +35.1% |
| MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1 | 61.5% | +27.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756335 | COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR 3D PRINTING | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 8d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18479212 | PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SHAH, SAMIR | 9d overdue |
| 17756335 | COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR 3D PRINTING | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 8d |
| 18560877 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A THERMOSET POLYMER FOAM AND POLYMER FOAM | COONEY, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560877 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A THERMOSET POLYMER FOAM AND POLYMER FOAM | COONEY, JOHN M | 1765 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18479212 | PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THEREOF | SHAH, SAMIR | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 17756335 | COMPOSITION SUITABLE FOR 3D PRINTING | MACHNESS, ARIELLA | 1743 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPlantics Holding B V has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
John M Cooney has the most, with 1 of Plantics Holding B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
