Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing that each pending application is being handled by a different examiner in a different unit. SALVATORE, LYNDA is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This structure reflects a lack of concentration in the prosecution process for the 4 pending office actions.
Since each of the 4 distinct examiners is responsible for 1 pending office action, the workload is evenly split across the 4 distinct art units. This decentralized structure requires the company to manage four separate prosecution tracks within the Chemistry & Materials field. Practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of 4 distinct examiners, as no single examiner or art unit dominates the current 4 pending office actions. The requirement to engage with 4 distinct art units implies that the company must adapt to four different sets of examination guidelines simultaneously.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALVATORE, LYNDA | 1 | 64.2% | +19.1% |
| FROST, ANTHONY J | 1 | 52.6% | +20.2% |
| TRAN, TRAN M. | 1 | 75.0% | +23.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034569 | CHIRAL POLYMERS AND USE THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 19d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034569 | CHIRAL POLYMERS AND USE THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 19d |
| 17439380 | INTERFERENT AND BASELINE DRIFT CORRECTING SENSOR SYSTEM | TRAN, TRAN M. | 28d |
| 18284850 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION | SALVATORE, LYNDA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1782 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18284850 | THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITION | SALVATORE, LYNDA | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18034569 | CHIRAL POLYMERS AND USE THEREOF | FROST, ANTHONY J | 1782 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 17439380 | INTERFERENT AND BASELINE DRIFT CORRECTING SENSOR SYSTEM | TRAN, TRAN M. | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Sep 14, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Lynda Salvatore has the most, with 1 of Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
