Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
25 pending office actions • 20 art units • 24 examiners • 0 of 25 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 48 patents granted in the last 365 days
Resonac Holdings Corporation has 25 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 24 examiners and 20 art units, reflecting a large and widely distributed prosecution footprint. The difference between pending matters and examiner assignments indicates limited examiner concentration, while the art-unit distribution shows activity across many technical examination settings.
CAI, JIAJIA JANIE is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending matters. Even this leading examiner assignment represents only a small portion of the portfolio, so a single-examiner strategy would not address the broader prosecution workload.
Counsel should use centralized portfolio controls for terminology, disclosure consistency, and amendment governance. At the same time, each action requires examiner- and art-unit-specific analysis, especially where related chemistry claims may receive different treatment in separate examination channels.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 | 16 (64%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 2 | 29.1% | +20.7% |
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1 | 58.2% | +26.1% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.1% | +18.4% |
| WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1 | 26.9% | +65.7% |
| KIM, JAY C | 1 | 49.4% | +21.6% |
| ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1 | 47.9% | +38.9% |
| WHALEN, DANIEL B | 1 | 80.3% | +15.9% |
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1 | 61.0% | +20.9% |
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 56.0% | +37.9% |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17925014 | PRIMER, SUBSTRATE EQUIPPED WITH PRIMER LAYER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUBSTRATE EQUIPPED WITH PRIMER LAYER, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 77d overdue |
| 17707743 | EVALUATION METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER | WHALEN, DANIEL B | 73d overdue |
| 17595958 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 5d overdue |
| 17862933 | SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER | KIM, JAY C | 20d |
| 17775037 | MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 34d |
| 18006998 | METHOD FOR CULTIVATING COTTON AND PLANT ACTIVATOR FOR CULTIVATING COTTON | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 71d |
| 18398853 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FORGING AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | — |
| 17790643 | LATEX COMPOSITION, MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17707743 | EVALUATION METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER | WHALEN, DANIEL B | 73d overdue |
| 17595958 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 5d overdue |
| 17418556 | CHLOROPRENE POLYMER LATEX AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 6d |
| 17862933 | SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER | KIM, JAY C | 20d |
| 18309111 | SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 28d |
| 18006998 | METHOD FOR CULTIVATING COTTON AND PLANT ACTIVATOR FOR CULTIVATING COTTON | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 71d |
| 18398853 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FORGING AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | — |
| 17790643 | LATEX COMPOSITION, MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1737 | 3 |
| 2815 | 2 |
| 1744 | 2 |
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 2893 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18398853 | ALUMINUM ALLOY FORGING AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18309111 | SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18006998 | METHOD FOR CULTIVATING COTTON AND PLANT ACTIVATOR FOR CULTIVATING COTTON | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Jan 26, 2023 |
| 17862933 | SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER | KIM, JAY C | 2815 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 12, 2022 |
| 17790643 | LATEX COMPOSITION, MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | ILLING, CAITLIN NORINE | 1767 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
| 17707743 | EVALUATION METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SiC EPITAXIAL WAFER | WHALEN, DANIEL B | 2893 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17418556 | CHLOROPRENE POLYMER LATEX AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Jan 27, 2022 |
| 17595964 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
| 17595958 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
| 17615308 | METHOD FOR REMOVING ADHERING MATERIAL AND FILM FORMING METHOD | CULBERT, CHRISTOPHER A | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
| 17613867 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING FLUORINE GAS | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1794 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
| 18089620 | ELECTROCONDUCTIVE FILM, ROLL, CONNECTED STRUCTURE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING CONNECTED STRUCTURE | NEWTON, VALERIE N | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 18008971 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ANODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY | TROCHE, EDGAREDMANUE | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17926385 | ADHESIVE SET, FILM, BONDED BODY, AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING ADHEREND | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1765 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
| 17925014 | PRIMER, SUBSTRATE EQUIPPED WITH PRIMER LAYER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUBSTRATE EQUIPPED WITH PRIMER LAYER, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
| 17922867 | PHOTOSENSITIVE FILM, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING LAMINATE | TRAYWICK, ANDREW PRESTON | 1737 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17913016 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING WIRING BOARD | CHU, JOHN S Y | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 20, 2022 |
| 17823426 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, METHOD OF PRODUCING PATTERNED CURED PRODUCT USING THE SAME, AND CURED PRODUCT OF PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION | MALLOY, ANNA E | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
| 17796253 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM-ION SECONDARY BATTERY | SONG, KEVIN | 1728 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
| 17775037 | MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING MOLDED BODY | RUMMEL, JULIA L | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | May 06, 2022 |
| 17768746 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT DEVICE | CHUNG, ANDREW | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
| 17766011 | RESIN MOLDED ARTICLE | BARTLETT, VICTORIA | 1744 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17633211 | RESIN COMPOSITION, HEAT STORAGE MATERIAL, AND ARTICLE | CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2022 |
| 17631857 | NEGATIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, NEGATIVE ELECTRODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY, AND LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY | SMITH, JEREMIAH R | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2022 |
| 17437412 | CURABLE COMPOSITION, HEAT STORAGE MATERIAL, AND ARTICLE | CAI, JIAJIA JANIE | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialResonac Holdings Corporation has 25 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 20 art units and 24 examiners.
Jiajia Janie Cai has the most, with 2 of Resonac Holdings Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
