Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Solutia Inc.

17 pending office actions • 10 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

11
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 17 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (11)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
16
Medium (94%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only15 (88%)
§102 only1 (6%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

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

12
Life Sciences
71% of docket
1
Information Tech
6% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
18% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
6% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
RUMMEL, IAN A 2 56.2% +18.8%
SHUKLA, KRUPA 2 14.5% +22.6%
WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 2 45.9% +27.0%
NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI 1 25.9% +47.4%
FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D 1 78.3% +13.5%
ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1 53.8% +24.7%
POWERS, LAURA C 1 55.7% +47.5%
LIU, SHAN 1 72.0% +39.7%
SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR 1 68.3% +20.1%
RUNYAN, SILVANA C 1 82.2% +17.1%

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18748700 INTERLAYERS COMPRISING OPTICAL FILMS HAVING ENHANCED OPTICAL PROPERTIES SHUKLA, KRUPA 88d overdue
18704081 RECOVERING POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) POLYMER NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI 15d overdue
17309213 POLYMER INTERLAYERS HAVING REDUCED COLOR SHUKLA, KRUPA 34d

Interview Candidates (13)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18748700 INTERLAYERS COMPRISING OPTICAL FILMS HAVING ENHANCED OPTICAL PROPERTIES SHUKLA, KRUPA 88d overdue
18558396 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MECHANICAL SEPARATION OF MULTILAYER INTERLAYERS SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR 73d overdue
18562869 IR-REFLECTIVE COMPOUND INTERLAYERS LIU, SHAN 60d overdue
18832093 INTERLAYERS AND LAMINATED GLAZINGS WITH LIGHT-REFLECTING BODIES RUMMEL, IAN A 28d overdue
18260105 A METHOD OF RECYCLING POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) FROM MULTILAYER POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) SHEETS RUNYAN, SILVANA C 26d overdue
18832092 INTERLAYERS AND LAMINATED GLAZINGS WITH LIGHT-REFLECTING BODIES RUMMEL, IAN A 25d overdue
18704081 RECOVERING POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) POLYMER NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI 15d overdue
18006224 INTERLAYERS HAVING ENHANCED OPTICAL PERFORMANCE WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 15d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1781 4
1785 3
1787 2
2872 2
1779 1
2871 1
1745 1
3674 1
2426 1
1783 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18832093 INTERLAYERS AND LAMINATED GLAZINGS WITH LIGHT-REFLECTING BODIES RUMMEL, IAN A 1785 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18832092 INTERLAYERS AND LAMINATED GLAZINGS WITH LIGHT-REFLECTING BODIES RUMMEL, IAN A 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18748700 INTERLAYERS COMPRISING OPTICAL FILMS HAVING ENHANCED OPTICAL PROPERTIES SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18704081 RECOVERING POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) POLYMER NGUYEN, BOI-LIEN THI 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 24, 2024
18702518 POLYMER INTERLAYERS WITH REDUCED EDGE BUBBLES FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Apr 18, 2024
18688831 POLYMER INTERLAYERS WITH LOW MOTTLE AND REDUCED ICEFLOWER DEFECTS ZHANG, MICHAEL N 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Mar 04, 2024
18687018 POLYMER INTERLAYER WITH BLOCKED CORE LAYER POWERS, LAURA C 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 27, 2024
18562869 IR-REFLECTIVE COMPOUND INTERLAYERS LIU, SHAN 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18558396 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MECHANICAL SEPARATION OF MULTILAYER INTERLAYERS SENGUPTA, SONYA MAZUMDAR 1745 §103 Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2023
18260105 A METHOD OF RECYCLING POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) FROM MULTILAYER POLY(VINYL BUTYRAL) SHEETS RUNYAN, SILVANA C 3674 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18255602 SELECTIVE ABSORPTION FOR SECONDARY IMAGE MITIGATION IN HUD SYSTEMS PINKNEY, DAWAYNE 2872 §103 Final Rejection 79d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18255653 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STRAY LIGHT ARTIFACT MITIGATION SRIDHAR, SAMANVITHA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 67d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18255628 SECONDARY IMAGE MITIGATION AND SOLAR CONTROL IN HUD SYSTEMS ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2426 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18006224 INTERLAYERS HAVING ENHANCED OPTICAL PERFORMANCE WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 20, 2023
18006218 INTERLAYERS HAVING ENHANCED OPTICAL PERFORMANCE IN TRANSMISSION WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jan 20, 2023
17760488 POLYMER INTERLAYERS HAVING REDUCED YELLOW COLOR KHATRI, PRASHANT J 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2022
17309213 POLYMER INTERLAYERS HAVING REDUCED COLOR SHUKLA, KRUPA 1787 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 07, 2021

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