Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 11 clients • 12 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Calderone McKay LLC operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, where it has handled 346 career applications. This portfolio size indicates a specialized practice with a clear technical focus. The firm currently has 15 pending office actions, which suggests a manageable set of active matters. These figures reflect a boutique approach to intellectual property law within the chemical and material science sectors.
The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate pct of 78.09, showing a consistent ability to secure patent grants for its clients. This rate is coupled with an avg_office_actions_per_allowance of 3.86, indicating that the firm often engages in multiple rounds of negotiation with examiners to reach an allowance. The 78.09 resolved allowance rate pct is a key metric of the firm's success in the Chemistry & Materials field. With 346 career applications, the 3.86 avg_office_actions_per_allowance provides a benchmark for the expected effort and duration of the prosecution cycle. These statistics offer a clear view of the firm's performance in its primary area of expertise.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (17%) |
| §103 only | 4 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.4% |
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| MOORE, WHITNEY | 1 | 88.1% | +10.1% |
| DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 1 | 70.0% | +30.5% |
| GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 1 | 10.9% | +12.2% |
| SONG, MATTHEW J | 1 | 60.4% | +13.9% |
| ABADIR, NADER | 1 | 96.9% | +3.3% |
| MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1 | 58.5% | +16.0% |
| JACKSON, JORDAN L | 1 | 40.8% | +38.5% |
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 26.8% | +32.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35519571 | TUMBLER | ABADIR, NADER | 264d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251949 | Smart Hospital Bed Operating System and Method using Big Data | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 79d overdue |
| 18122243 | PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING CALCIUM OXIDE FROM EGGSHELLS WITH APPLICATIONS IN FOOD PROCESSING | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 79d overdue |
| 17926653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING NEEDS OF PATIENT FOR HOSPITAL RESOURCES | JACKSON, JORDAN L | 9d |
| 17439544 | FERTILISING COMPOSITION WHICH INCLUDES A PLANT-ASSIMILABLE PHOSPHORUS AND CALCIUM POTENTIATOR AND USE THEREOF | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 15d |
| 19041064 | CONTAINER TAMPER DETECTION CAPSULE, CONTAINER LID AND CAPSULE AND LID PRODUCTION PROCESSES | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 28d |
| 19111110 | PISTON PUMP WITH QUICK EXHAUST SLIDE VALVES | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 77d |
| 18744298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBAL REAL-TIME KINEMATIC PRECISE POSITIONING | MOORE, WHITNEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251949 | Smart Hospital Bed Operating System and Method using Big Data | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 79d overdue |
| 18122243 | PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING CALCIUM OXIDE FROM EGGSHELLS WITH APPLICATIONS IN FOOD PROCESSING | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 79d overdue |
| 18625836 | COVERING PANEL FOR COVERING WORK AREAS | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 9d |
| 17926653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING NEEDS OF PATIENT FOR HOSPITAL RESOURCES | JACKSON, JORDAN L | 9d |
| 19041064 | CONTAINER TAMPER DETECTION CAPSULE, CONTAINER LID AND CAPSULE AND LID PRODUCTION PROCESSES | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 28d |
| 19111110 | PISTON PUMP WITH QUICK EXHAUST SLIDE VALVES | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 77d |
| 18744298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBAL REAL-TIME KINEMATIC PRECISE POSITIONING | MOORE, WHITNEY | — |
| 18263373 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ROLLS AND MEMBRANES OF SUBMICROMETRIC THICKNESS OF GA2O3 BY ION IMPLANTATION | SONG, MATTHEW J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Seoul National University | 2 |
| Samoa Industrial, S.A. | 1 |
| AMORIM TOP SERIES, SA | 1 |
| UTI LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | 1 |
| Ibel Agustin Balbia Farinha | 1 |
| INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO | 1 |
| STOR,S.L. | 1 |
| Maguire Abbey, LLC | 1 |
| XAM | 1 |
| Etna-Tec, Ltd. | 1 |
| FERTINAGRO BIOTECH, S.L. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1767 | 2 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 2931 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111110 | PISTON PUMP WITH QUICK EXHAUST SLIDE VALVES | Samoa Industrial, S.A. | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19041064 | CONTAINER TAMPER DETECTION CAPSULE, CONTAINER LID AND CAPSULE AND LID PRODUCTION PROCESSES | Amorim Top Series, SA | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18744298 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLOBAL REAL-TIME KINEMATIC PRECISE POSITIONING | UTI LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | MOORE, WHITNEY | 3646 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18625836 | COVERING PANEL FOR COVERING WORK AREAS | Ibel Agustin Balbia Farinha | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18251949 | Smart Hospital Bed Operating System and Method using Big Data | Seoul National University Hospital | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18263373 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ROLLS AND MEMBRANES OF SUBMICROMETRIC THICKNESS OF GA2O3 BY ION IMPLANTATION | Instituto Superior Técnico | SONG, MATTHEW J | 1714 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 35519571 | TUMBLER | Stor,S.L. | ABADIR, NADER | 2931 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 264d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18320915 | Method for Making Polymers by Transesterification of Polyols and Alkyl Esters of Polycarboxylic Acids, Polymers and Copolymers Made Thereby and Polymeric and Copolymeric Articles | Maguire Abbey, LLC | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 17926653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING NEEDS OF PATIENT FOR HOSPITAL RESOURCES | Seoul National University Hospital | JACKSON, JORDAN L | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18122243 | PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING CALCIUM OXIDE FROM EGGSHELLS WITH APPLICATIONS IN FOOD PROCESSING | Xam, Sociedad Anonima | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17701620 | Methods for Making Functionalized Fluorinated Monomers, Fluorinated Monomers, and Compositions for Making the Same | Etna-Tec, Ltd. | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | 1767 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
| 17439544 | FERTILISING COMPOSITION WHICH INCLUDES A PLANT-ASSIMILABLE PHOSPHORUS AND CALCIUM POTENTIATOR AND USE THEREOF | Fertinagro Biotech, S.L. | SMITH, JENNIFER A | 1731 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 15, 2021 |
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