Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Syensqo Specialty Polymers Usa LLC

15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (1)

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%)
13
Medium (87%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (13%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (87%)
No statute on record2 (13%)

Industry Mix

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

14
Life Sciences
93% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 2 63.0% +40.4%
KARST, DAVID THOMAS 2 64.5% +10.2%
NGUYEN, TRI V 1 67.6% +57.8%
LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS 1 100.0% +0.0%
STEELE, JENNIFER A 1 48.4% +33.5%
NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS 1 63.2% -5.1%
KAHN, RACHEL 1 27.6% +15.9%
ZHANG, RUIYUN 1 70.2% +10.2%
LING, DORIS 1 27.8% +76.5%
DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN 1 46.4% +64.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18565637 MULTILAYER POLYARYLENE SULFIDE TUBES LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS 53d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17923529 ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ARTICLES INCLUDING POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS LING, DORIS 4d overdue
18039467 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MAKING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT KAHN, RACHEL 53d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17784124 SIDE-CHAIN FUNCTIONALIZED POLY (ARYL ETHER SULFONES) COPOLYMER COMPRISING REACTIVE END-GROUPS KARST, DAVID THOMAS 38d overdue
17911392 LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND CORRESPONDING ARTICLES SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 28d overdue
18036414 BIO-BASED SULFONE COPOLYMERS FREE OF BPA AND BPS KARST, DAVID THOMAS 19d overdue
17923529 ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ARTICLES INCLUDING POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS LING, DORIS 4d overdue
17998003 IMPACT MODIFIED POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN 4d overdue
18253123 POLYAMIDE COMPOSITION ZHANG, RUIYUN 3d overdue
18693584 ELECTROSTATIC DISSIPATIVE POLYAMIDE COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE COMPRISING IT NGUYEN, TRI V 12d
18560666 FILAMENT CONTAINING POLYAMIDE (PA) POLYMER AND ITS USE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING STEELE, JENNIFER A 20d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1764 3
1762 3
1767 3
1766 2
3753 1
1789 1
1782 1
1773 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18693584 ELECTROSTATIC DISSIPATIVE POLYAMIDE COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE COMPRISING IT NGUYEN, TRI V 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 20, 2024
18576464 POLY(ARYLENE SULFIDE) COMPOSITION SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jan 04, 2024
18565637 MULTILAYER POLYARYLENE SULFIDE TUBES LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18560666 FILAMENT CONTAINING POLYAMIDE (PA) POLYMER AND ITS USE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING STEELE, JENNIFER A 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Nov 13, 2023
18264440 POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS WITH FUNCTIONALIZED POLYOLEFIN AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPONENTS CONTAINING THEM NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 07, 2023
18039467 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR MAKING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT KAHN, RACHEL 1766 Other Non-Final OA 53d Pending May 30, 2023
18253123 POLYAMIDE COMPOSITION ZHANG, RUIYUN 1782 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending May 16, 2023
18036414 BIO-BASED SULFONE COPOLYMERS FREE OF BPA AND BPS KARST, DAVID THOMAS 1767 Other Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending May 11, 2023
17923529 ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ARTICLES INCLUDING POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS LING, DORIS 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
17998003 IMPACT MODIFIED POLYAMIDE COMPOSITIONS DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN 1766 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 04, 2022
17911392 LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND CORRESPONDING ARTICLES SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO 1762 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2022
17906050 POWDERED MATERIAL (P) CONTAINING POLY(ARYLENE SULFIDE) (PAS) POLYMER AND ITS USE FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING BROOKS, KREGG T 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2022
17802177 POLYESTER COMPOSITIONS AND CORRESPONDING ARTICLES LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Aug 25, 2022
17784124 SIDE-CHAIN FUNCTIONALIZED POLY (ARYL ETHER SULFONES) COPOLYMER COMPRISING REACTIVE END-GROUPS KARST, DAVID THOMAS 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jun 10, 2022
17640428 POROUS ARTICLES, PROCESSES FOR THEIR PREPARATION AND USES THEREOF FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON GIONTA 1773 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Mar 04, 2022

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