Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stamicarbon B V has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending applications are technically similar, even though they are being reviewed by different individuals. This focus allows for a centralized understanding of the examination standards likely to be applied to the 2 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner, ROBINSON, RENEE E, is handling 1 pending office action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. This allows for a consistent approach within the specific art unit while navigating the individual requirements of two separate examiners. The presence of 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's success is not tied to a single person, even as the work remains within the same technical group at the patent office.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, RENEE E | 1 | 73.6% | +24.2% |
| SHAO, PHILLIP Y | 1 | 75.3% | +23.7% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970291 | THERMAL STRIPPING UREA PLANT AND PROCESS | ROBINSON, RENEE E | — |
| 18248902 | THERMAL STRIPPING UREA PRODUCTION | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970291 | THERMAL STRIPPING UREA PLANT AND PROCESS | ROBINSON, RENEE E | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18248902 | THERMAL STRIPPING UREA PRODUCTION | SHAO, PHILLIP Y | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
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