Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Cmp Holdings Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners but 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner diversity within a common art-unit setting.
RIVERA, CARLOS A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The shared unit may permit a common technical baseline, while the separate examiner assignments call for tailored response strategies.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 1 | 77.4% | +28.9% |
| KELLER, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.4% | +37.7% |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 1 | 56.8% | +31.5% |
| DION, MARCEL T | 1 | 40.7% | +36.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18490345 | DUAL-LAYER CMP POLISHING SUBPAD | HENSON, KATINA N | 42d overdue |
| 18490290 | MICRO-LAYER CMP POLISHING SUBPAD | KELLER, BRIAN D | 8d |
| 15924606 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING PADS FOR IMPROVED REMOVAL RATE AND PLANARIZATION | DION, MARCEL T | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404443 | POLISHING PAD WITH ENDPOINT WINDOW | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 46d overdue |
| 18490345 | DUAL-LAYER CMP POLISHING SUBPAD | HENSON, KATINA N | 42d overdue |
| 18490290 | MICRO-LAYER CMP POLISHING SUBPAD | KELLER, BRIAN D | 8d |
| 15924606 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING PADS FOR IMPROVED REMOVAL RATE AND PLANARIZATION | DION, MARCEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18404443 | POLISHING PAD WITH ENDPOINT WINDOW | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18490290 | MICRO-LAYER CMP POLISHING SUBPAD | KELLER, BRIAN D | 3723 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18490345 | DUAL-LAYER CMP POLISHING SUBPAD | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 15924606 | CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING PADS FOR IMPROVED REMOVAL RATE AND PLANARIZATION | DION, MARCEL T | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2018 |
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Start Free TrialRohm and Haas Electronic Materials Cmp Holdings Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 4 examiners.
Carlos A Rivera has the most, with 1 of Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Cmp Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
