Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Specialty Minerals (Michigan) Inc. has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are spread across 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, HUANG, CHENG YUAN, is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The distribution of 4 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemistry-related filings are concentrated in two specific technical fields. Because there are 4 distinct examiners involved, each handling exactly one case, the company must navigate four separate examination styles. This structure ensures that the outcome of these pending matters is not overly dependent on any single examiner's discretion. With 2 distinct art units in play, the company can leverage successful arguments from one unit to inform prosecution in the other. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners provides a wide range of feedback, which is crucial for a company managing its current workload in the complex Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, CHENG YUAN | 1 | 39.0% | +22.8% |
| MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1 | 69.3% | +33.1% |
| RASHID, FAZLE A | 1 | 55.8% | +48.4% |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852054 | COMPOSITE FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 83d |
| 18861569 | EMULSION BLEND FOR COATING CARBONATES | HUANG, CHENG YUAN | — |
| 18007826 | SURFACE MINERALIZED ORGANIC FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | RASHID, FAZLE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17771263 | METHOD OF MAKING PURIFIED PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE FROM LIME MUD | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 8d overdue |
| 18852054 | COMPOSITE FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 83d |
| 18861569 | EMULSION BLEND FOR COATING CARBONATES | HUANG, CHENG YUAN | — |
| 18007826 | SURFACE MINERALIZED ORGANIC FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | RASHID, FAZLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1748 | 2 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18861569 | EMULSION BLEND FOR COATING CARBONATES | HUANG, CHENG YUAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18852054 | COMPOSITE FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MINSKEY, JACOB T | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18007826 | SURFACE MINERALIZED ORGANIC FIBERS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | RASHID, FAZLE A | 1748 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
| 17771263 | METHOD OF MAKING PURIFIED PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE FROM LIME MUD | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
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