Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Snf Group

7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due later (1)

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.

4
Hard (57%)
2
Medium (29%)
1
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (29%)
§112 only1 (14%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (57%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
14% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW 2 62.1% +37.3%
ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD 1
TUCKER, PHILIP C 1 24.2% +14.9%
RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM 1 73.6% +26.4%
XU, JIANGTIAN 1 65.3% +34.5%
SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 1 65.6% +37.2%

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18255283 MULTI-PHASE SUSPENSION OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER XU, JIANGTIAN 3d overdue
18286529 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER AND CARDBOARD RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW 78d
18562598 METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED (METH)ALLYLSULFONATE ALKALI SALT TUCKER, PHILIP C
18562742 METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED SUSBTITUTED ALKYL(METH)ACRYLAMIDE RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18555480 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER AND CARDBOARD RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW 28d overdue
18255283 MULTI-PHASE SUSPENSION OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER XU, JIANGTIAN 3d overdue
17906693 NOVEL WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER COMPLEXES IN THE FORM OF AN INVERSE EMULSION AND USES THEREOF SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 2d overdue
18286529 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER AND CARDBOARD RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW 78d
18562598 METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED (METH)ALLYLSULFONATE ALKALI SALT TUCKER, PHILIP C
18562742 METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED SUSBTITUTED ALKYL(METH)ACRYLAMIDE RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1748 2
1762 2
1745 1
1652 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18941436 POLYMER DISSOLUTION EQUIPMENT SUITABLE FOR LARGE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OPERATIONS ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD §112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 08, 2024
18562598 METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED (METH)ALLYLSULFONATE ALKALI SALT TUCKER, PHILIP C 1745 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 20, 2023
18562742 METHOD FOR OBTAINING BIO-SOURCED SUSBTITUTED ALKYL(METH)ACRYLAMIDE RAGHU, GANAPATHIRAM 1652 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Nov 20, 2023
18555480 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER AND CARDBOARD RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW 1748 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Oct 13, 2023
18286529 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER AND CARDBOARD RUSSELL, STEPHEN MATTHEW 1748 §103§112 Final Rejection 78d Pending Oct 11, 2023
18255283 MULTI-PHASE SUSPENSION OF A WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending May 31, 2023
17906693 NOVEL WATER-SOLUBLE POLYMER COMPLEXES IN THE FORM OF AN INVERSE EMULSION AND USES THEREOF SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 1762 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Sep 19, 2022

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