Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Solvay SA

10 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
3
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (3)

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%)
9
Medium (90%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (10%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (90%)
No statute on record1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1 69.7% +13.3%
KRYLOVA, IRINA 1 36.4% +47.9%
PARSA, JAFAR F 1 87.3% +8.7%
LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 1 83.9% +19.8%
QIAN, YUN 1 54.5% +20.8%
ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T 1 56.2% +24.8%
NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 1 82.7% +13.1%
ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 1 47.9% +21.3%
KOSLOW, CAROL M 1 81.8% +11.9%
LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 1 54.0% +27.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17768119 USE OF SILICATES IN A GREENHOUSE FILM FOR INCREASING FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS KOSLOW, CAROL M 33d
17914240 NEW SOLID SULFIDE ELECTROLYTES NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 34d
18247720 A PROCESS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF FLUORINATED OLEFINS IN GAS PHASE LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 35d

Interview Candidates (9)

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
16720100 PROCESS FOR BRAZING OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS AND A FLUX LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 103d overdue
18044742 PURIFICATION OF BIS (FLUOROSULFONYL) IMIDE SALT QIAN, YUN 59d overdue
18005807 SOLID COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T 17d overdue
18696293 AN APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED COAGULATION INJECTION DURING THE MANUFACTURE OF POLYMER FIBERS, AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 4d overdue
17781705 ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION WITH FLUORINATED ACYCLIC ESTER AND FLUORINATED CYCLIC CARBONATE ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 6d
18430385 FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICULATE BICARBONATE AS BLOWING AGENT, FOAMABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT, AND ITS USE IN MANUFACTURING A THERMOPLASTIC FOAMED POLYMER KRYLOVA, IRINA 8d
17768119 USE OF SILICATES IN A GREENHOUSE FILM FOR INCREASING FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS KOSLOW, CAROL M 33d
17914240 NEW SOLID SULFIDE ELECTROLYTES NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 34d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1741 1
1764 1
1692 1
1776 1
1738 1
1727 1
1752 1
1751 1
1734 1
1733 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18696293 AN APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED COAGULATION INJECTION DURING THE MANUFACTURE OF POLYMER FIBERS, AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18430385 FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICULATE BICARBONATE AS BLOWING AGENT, FOAMABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT, AND ITS USE IN MANUFACTURING A THERMOPLASTIC FOAMED POLYMER KRYLOVA, IRINA 1764 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18247721 A PROCESS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF FLUORINATED OLEFINS PARSA, JAFAR F 1692 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 03, 2023
18247720 A PROCESS FOR THE PURIFICATION OF FLUORINATED OLEFINS IN GAS PHASE LAWRENCE JR, FRANK M 1776 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Apr 03, 2023
18044742 PURIFICATION OF BIS (FLUOROSULFONYL) IMIDE SALT QIAN, YUN 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 59d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18005807 SOLID COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE ZEMUI, NATHANAEL T 1727 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jan 17, 2023
17914240 NEW SOLID SULFIDE ELECTROLYTES NGUYEN, KEVIN NMN 1752 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 23, 2022
17781705 ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION WITH FLUORINATED ACYCLIC ESTER AND FLUORINATED CYCLIC CARBONATE ORTIZ, ARYANA YASMINE 1751 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jun 01, 2022
17768119 USE OF SILICATES IN A GREENHOUSE FILM FOR INCREASING FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS KOSLOW, CAROL M 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Apr 11, 2022
16720100 PROCESS FOR BRAZING OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS AND A FLUX LUK, VANESSA TIBAY 1733 §103 Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2019

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