Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Westlake Epoxy Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners and are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending matter is being managed by a different examiner in a separate unit. Such a distribution can result in different prosecution speeds and outcomes based on the specific workloads and policies of the 2 distinct art units involved.
SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending actions, the workload is divided equally among the participating examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner has a dominant role in the company's current pending portfolio. Practitioners should be prepared to manage distinct prosecution strategies tailored to the 2 distinct examiners and their respective art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 51.8% | +45.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18108460 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 35d overdue |
| 18140335 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITIONS, COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND METHODS OF COATING SUBSTRATES | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18140335 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITIONS, COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND METHODS OF COATING SUBSTRATES | SLOAN, LILY KAYOKO | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18108460 | EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1765 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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