Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
VISCOFAN, S.A. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and an equal number of distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each active case is being handled by a different examiner in a separate administrative unit. This relationship suggests that the company's current prosecution is not concentrated in any single area of the USPTO's chemistry division.
SILVERMAN, JANICE Y is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. Since the 3 total pending office actions are split among several examiners, the company must coordinate multiple independent prosecution strategies. This requires navigating the specific expectations of various art units within the chemistry sector. For the practitioner, the lack of examiner concentration means that each case must be managed as a unique interaction. Success depends on understanding the specific technical standards and procedural tendencies of each distinct examiner across their separate units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1 | 37.6% | +53.0% |
| MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1 | 71.2% | +10.9% |
| SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1 | 10.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246736 | DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 6d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246736 | DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 6d |
| 18247736 | COLLAGEN INK FOR 3D PRINTING | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 7d |
| 18292589 | REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18292589 | REVERSIBLE EDIBLE FILM, USES AND METHOD OF PRODUCTION | SILVERMAN, JANICE Y | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18247736 | COLLAGEN INK FOR 3D PRINTING | MCDONOUGH, JAMES E | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 03, 2023 |
| 18246736 | DRY COLLAGEN POWDER WITH SATIATING PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION | SHELLHAMMER, JAMES PAUL | 1793 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVISCOFAN, S.A. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Janice Y Silverman has the most, with 1 of VISCOFAN, S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
