Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solus Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. is managing an active portfolio with 7 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 6 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the portfolio is technically focused within 2 distinct art units, it faces a variety of examiner perspectives across its active applications.
HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are spread among other distinct examiners. This means that HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE oversees a larger share of the portfolio's active matters than any other individual examiner. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific preferences of this examiner given their influence on the portfolio's overall progress.
With 2 distinct art units involved, practitioners must navigate the specific procedural nuances and technical standards of each group. The presence of 7 pending office actions requires a coordinated effort to ensure that responses are consistent across the 6 distinct examiners. Managing the 2 pending office actions with HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE is a primary focus for the portfolio's current prosecution strategy. This structure requires the legal team to balance multiple examiner interactions while maintaining a unified technical position within the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 2 | 66.7% | +40.8% |
| BROOKS, KREGG T | 1 | 57.1% | +1.1% |
| CLAUDIO VAZQUEZ, ADRIANA PAOLA | 1 | — | — |
| BOYD, JENNIFER A | 1 | 32.3% | +44.5% |
| LOEWE, ROBERT S | 1 | 83.9% | +3.8% |
| DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 1 | 60.7% | +28.7% |
| SIMBANA, RACHEL A | 1 | 62.1% | +44.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17760606 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 2d overdue |
| 18741291 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | BROOKS, KREGG T | 54d |
| 18269027 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING COMPOUND, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT COMPRISING SAME | BOYD, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18266975 | ORGANIC LUMINESCENT COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE USING SAME | LOEWE, ROBERT S | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17760606 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 2d overdue |
| 18269027 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING COMPOUND, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT COMPRISING SAME | BOYD, JENNIFER A | — |
| 17768450 | High refractive index and high adhesion epoxy resin composition and encapsulation material comprising the same | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 17768453 | High refractive index and high adhesion epoxy resin composition and encapsulation material comprising the same | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 17622598 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | SIMBANA, RACHEL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 2 |
| 1786 | 2 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18741291 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | BROOKS, KREGG T | 1764 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18014079 | ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE USING SAME | CLAUDIO VAZQUEZ, ADRIANA PAOLA | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
| 18269027 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING COMPOUND, AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELEMENT COMPRISING SAME | BOYD, JENNIFER A | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18266975 | ORGANIC LUMINESCENT COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE USING SAME | LOEWE, ROBERT S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 17768450 | High refractive index and high adhesion epoxy resin composition and encapsulation material comprising the same | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
| 17768453 | High refractive index and high adhesion epoxy resin composition and encapsulation material comprising the same | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
| 17760606 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | DEGUIRE, SEAN M | 1786 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 15, 2022 |
| 17622598 | ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE | SIMBANA, RACHEL A | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2021 |
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