Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Synthomer Adhesive Technologies, LLC currently has 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity is located within 2 distinct art units. These counts show that the company's active matters are distributed among a small number of reviewers and administrative units relative to the 7 total pending office actions. This concentration in the distinct art units suggests the pending applications are limited in technical scope.
DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL is the busiest examiner for the company and is responsible for 5 pending office actions. This busiest examiner pending count of 5 is a majority of the total pending office actions. Because a large portion of the matters are assigned to this individual, the company's prosecution success is influenced by this specific examiner. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the patterns of this examiner, as the 3 distinct examiners do not share the workload equally. The current prosecution profile is defined by this concentration under a primary reviewer.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 5 | 61.0% | +20.9% |
| HUHN, RICHARD A | 1 | 67.1% | +5.7% |
| FANG, SHANE | 1 | 76.6% | +18.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18256250 | POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 53d |
| 18256300 | RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RANDOM ALPHA-OLEFINIC COPOLYMERS AND ADDITIONAL POLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 54d |
| 17841025 | RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RANDOM ALPHA-OLEFINIC COPOLYMERS AND ADDITIONAL POLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 54d |
| 18486449 | FUNCTIONALIZED RESIN HAVING A POLAR LINKER | HUHN, RICHARD A | — |
| 18256239 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING THE VISCOSITY OF RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18045020 | CURABLE ADHESIVE BASED ON SILANE FUNCTIONALIZED RESIN | FANG, SHANE | 27d |
| 18256250 | POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 53d |
| 18256300 | RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RANDOM ALPHA-OLEFINIC COPOLYMERS AND ADDITIONAL POLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 54d |
| 17841025 | RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RANDOM ALPHA-OLEFINIC COPOLYMERS AND ADDITIONAL POLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 54d |
| 18256239 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING THE VISCOSITY OF RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
| 18256280 | PROCESS TO PRODUCE POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 6 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18486449 | FUNCTIONALIZED RESIN HAVING A POLAR LINKER | HUHN, RICHARD A | 1764 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18256239 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING THE VISCOSITY OF RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18256280 | PROCESS TO PRODUCE POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18256250 | POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18256300 | RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RANDOM ALPHA-OLEFINIC COPOLYMERS AND ADDITIONAL POLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18045020 | CURABLE ADHESIVE BASED ON SILANE FUNCTIONALIZED RESIN | FANG, SHANE | 1766 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17841025 | RECYCLED POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING RANDOM ALPHA-OLEFINIC COPOLYMERS AND ADDITIONAL POLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jun 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSynthomer Adhesive Technologies, LLC has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Devin Mitchell Darling has the most, with 5 of Synthomer Adhesive Technologies, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
