Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 10 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ticona LLC has 17 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those actions involve 16 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, showing substantial dispersion across the examining organization. The portfolio therefore presents a broad coordination challenge, with prosecution conditions likely to vary by both examiner and technical group.
ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner warrants focused monitoring, but the broader distribution means it does not represent the principal management issue for the entire portfolio. Counsel should maintain centralized tracking while developing responses around the practices of each art unit and examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 7 (47%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1 | 56.8% | +42.8% |
| VISCONTI, GERALDINA | 1 | 86.5% | +1.6% |
| ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | 1 | 72.4% | -13.0% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.7% | +24.5% |
| LEE, JAMES | 1 | 74.4% | +19.4% |
| CHAN, HENG M | 1 | 61.0% | +31.9% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 77.0% | +26.9% |
| FIGG, LAURA B | 1 | 58.7% | +23.7% |
| OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 1 | 81.9% | +10.2% |
| HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481275 | Interactive Chemical Material Interface | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 8d |
| 18343778 | Busbar for a Battery Assembly | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 13d |
| 18897006 | Damper for a Camera Module | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17990786 | Plateable Polymer Composition for Use at High Frequencies | USELDING, JOHN E | 16d overdue |
| 18700738 | Projector for Use in a Head-Mounted Display Device System | ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | — |
| 18686509 | Battery Module | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 18425296 | Nonaqueous Electrochemical Battery Containing A Sealing Member | CHAN, HENG M | — |
| 18515413 | Pyrotechnic Switch for an Electric Vehicle | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 18339261 | Thermally Conductive Polymer Composition | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18481275 | Interactive Chemical Material Interface | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 8d |
| 18503631 | Thermally Conductive Polymer Composition | FIGG, LAURA B | 55d |
| 18976408 | Fibers Formed from a Liquid Crystalline Polymer | PIERCE, JEREMY R | — |
| 18616248 | Bio-Hydroxybenzoic Acids for Use in Forming Bio-Liquid Crystalline Polymers | YOON, TAE H | — |
| 18686509 | Battery Module | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 18425296 | Nonaqueous Electrochemical Battery Containing A Sealing Member | CHAN, HENG M | — |
| 18515413 | Pyrotechnic Switch for an Electric Vehicle | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 3 |
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1763 | 2 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18976408 | Fibers Formed from a Liquid Crystalline Polymer | PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18897006 | Damper for a Camera Module | VISCONTI, GERALDINA | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18700738 | Projector for Use in a Head-Mounted Display Device System | ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | 1737 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18616248 | Bio-Hydroxybenzoic Acids for Use in Forming Bio-Liquid Crystalline Polymers | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18686509 | Battery Module | LEE, JAMES | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18425296 | Nonaqueous Electrochemical Battery Containing A Sealing Member | CHAN, HENG M | 1725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18515413 | Pyrotechnic Switch for an Electric Vehicle | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1781 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18503631 | Thermally Conductive Polymer Composition | FIGG, LAURA B | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18481275 | Interactive Chemical Material Interface | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 2658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
| 18343778 | Busbar for a Battery Assembly | HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18339261 | Thermally Conductive Polymer Composition | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17990786 | Plateable Polymer Composition for Use at High Frequencies | USELDING, JOHN E | 1763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
| 17984288 | Polymer Composition for Use in an Electronic Device | FANG, SHANE | 1766 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17740428 | Camera Module Containing A Polymer Composition | QIAO, HUIHONG | 1763 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
| 17543791 | Electronic Module | EASHOO, MARK | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Dec 07, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTicona LLC has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 15 examiners.
Jeremy R Pierce has the most, with 1 of Ticona LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
