Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ticona LLC maintains a portfolio with 14 pending office actions focused in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 13 distinct examiners, which indicates that nearly every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The involvement of 9 distinct art units further demonstrates that the portfolio spans multiple specialized groups within the USPTO, requiring an understanding of different examination standards within the chemical sector.
The busiest examiner, ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This concentration, where the busiest examiner handles 2 out of 14 total actions, suggests that the portfolio is not dominated by a single examiner's perspective. Instead, the prosecution strategy must account for the 13 distinct examiners involved. The breadth across 9 distinct art units implies that the 14 pending office actions encounter a range of supervisory environments, making a uniform prosecution approach difficult to maintain across the entire Chemistry & Materials portfolio. Practitioners must navigate the specific preferences of 13 distinct examiners to resolve the 14 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 6 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (43%) |
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, CHANCEITY N | 2 | 72.4% | -13.1% |
| PIERCE, JEREMY R | 1 | 56.8% | +43.2% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.5% | +24.7% |
| LEE, JAMES | 1 | 74.2% | +19.5% |
| FLORES JR, DONALD M | 1 | 76.9% | +27.3% |
| OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 1 | 81.8% | +10.3% |
| HANYON, SAMANTHA LEE | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.7% | +48.5% |
| USELDING, JOHN E | 1 | 53.7% | +17.5% |
| FANG, SHANE | 1 | 76.6% | +18.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 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 |
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 |
| 17867777 | Drug Delivery Pump | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 34d |
| 18700738 | Projector for Use in a Head-Mounted Display Device System | ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | — |
| 18686509 | Battery Module | LEE, JAMES | — |
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17990786 | Plateable Polymer Composition for Use at High Frequencies | USELDING, JOHN E | 16d overdue |
| 18481275 | Interactive Chemical Material Interface | OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N | 8d |
| 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 | — |
| 18515413 | Pyrotechnic Switch for an Electric Vehicle | FLORES JR, DONALD M | — |
| 18339261 | Thermally Conductive Polymer Composition | KRYLOVA, IRINA | — |
| 17984288 | Polymer Composition for Use in an Electronic Device | FANG, SHANE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1763 | 2 |
| 1766 | 2 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2658 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1764 | 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18835043 | Black Liquid Crystalline Polymer Composition With Low Dissipation Factor | ROBINSON, CHANCEITY N | 1722 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 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 | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18686509 | Battery Module | LEE, JAMES | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18515413 | Pyrotechnic Switch for an Electric Vehicle | FLORES JR, DONALD M | 2835 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 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 |
| 17867777 | Drug Delivery Pump | DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 1766 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 19, 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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