Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rhodia Operations currently manages a portfolio of 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, reflecting a diversified prosecution environment. This distribution suggests that the company's chemical innovations are being reviewed across a wide range of technical specialties at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FUNG, CHING-YIU, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. With 9 distinct examiners involved in total, the workload is spread across many individuals, as most examiners are reviewing a single application. This lack of concentration requires practitioners to be prepared for many different examination styles and procedural nuances across the 10 pending matters currently on record.
The involvement of 7 distinct art units indicates that the company's filings are being scrutinized by several different technical groups. While FUNG, CHING-YIU manages 2 pending actions, the overall strategy must account for the standards of 7 different art units. This complexity necessitates a coordinated approach to ensure that the 10 pending office actions are handled efficiently across the various office divisions. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each examiner to advance the applications.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUNG, CHING-YIU | 2 | 32.4% | +20.8% |
| PATEL, SMITA S | 1 | 70.2% | +57.2% |
| WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1 | 29.2% | +64.2% |
| HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1 | 48.6% | +31.7% |
| LI, JUN | 1 | 54.6% | +56.8% |
| SWANSON, ANDREW L | 1 | 66.7% | +11.6% |
| KASSA, TIGABU | 1 | 36.7% | +27.9% |
| SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1 | 41.3% | -18.9% |
| HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1 | 12.0% | +45.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257839 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ONIUM SULFONYL IMIDE SALTS AND ALKALI METAL SULFONYL IMIDE SALTS | LI, JUN | 10d overdue |
| 18564413 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING A PARTICULAR ACRYLATE COPOLYMER DISPERSANT | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 27d |
| 18723400 | Precipitated Silica and Process for Its Manufacture | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18248510 | METAL SURFACE TREATMENT | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — |
| 17928224 | ALUMINIUM AND ZIRCONIUM-BASED MIXED OXIDE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| 17627152 | NATURAL VANILLIN COMPOSITIONS | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18257839 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ONIUM SULFONYL IMIDE SALTS AND ALKALI METAL SULFONYL IMIDE SALTS | LI, JUN | 10d overdue |
| 18564413 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING A PARTICULAR ACRYLATE COPOLYMER DISPERSANT | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 27d |
| 18723400 | Precipitated Silica and Process for Its Manufacture | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18264734 | BIODEGRADABLE SOIL RELEASE POLYESTER POLYMER AND THE CLEANING COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | — |
| 18248510 | METAL SURFACE TREATMENT | SWANSON, ANDREW L | — |
| 17928224 | ALUMINIUM AND ZIRCONIUM-BASED MIXED OXIDE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| 17946610 | POLYELECTROLYTE-LAYER FORMING BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | KASSA, TIGABU | — |
| 17781282 | ALUMINA WITH A PARTICULAR PORE PROFILE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 4 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1619 | 1 |
| 1616 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18723400 | Precipitated Silica and Process for Its Manufacture | PATEL, SMITA S | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18564413 | AGROCHEMICAL COMPOSITION CONTAINING A PARTICULAR ACRYLATE COPOLYMER DISPERSANT | WELLES, COLMAN THOMAS | 1612 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18264734 | BIODEGRADABLE SOIL RELEASE POLYESTER POLYMER AND THE CLEANING COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | HARRIS, BRITTANY SHARON | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2023 |
| 18257839 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ONIUM SULFONYL IMIDE SALTS AND ALKALI METAL SULFONYL IMIDE SALTS | LI, JUN | 1732 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jun 15, 2023 |
| 18248510 | METAL SURFACE TREATMENT | SWANSON, ANDREW L | 1745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
| 17928224 | ALUMINIUM AND ZIRCONIUM-BASED MIXED OXIDE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17946610 | POLYELECTROLYTE-LAYER FORMING BLOCK COPOLYMERS AND COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF | KASSA, TIGABU | 1619 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17788200 | AN ADJUVANT COMPOSITION AND THE AGRICULTURAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | SCHLIENTZ, NATHAN W | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2022 |
| 17781282 | ALUMINA WITH A PARTICULAR PORE PROFILE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17627152 | NATURAL VANILLIN COMPOSITIONS | HAWKINS, AMANDA SALATA | 1793 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2022 |
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