Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Cantor Colburn - Sabic General

10 pending office actions • 1 client • 9 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

10
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BUTTNER, DAVID J 2 63.9% +4.1%
SERGENT, RABON A 1 54.2% +24.7%
BASS, DIRK R 1 62.1% +22.6%
SASTRI, SATYA B 1 63.1% +29.3%
BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1 42.5% +47.2%
JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1 48.9% +32.9%
BROOKS, KREGG T 1 56.7% +1.8%
OYER, ANDREW J 1 79.5% +16.1%
LIU, ZHEN 1 42.0% +45.8%

Interview Candidates (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17433522 CROSS-LINKABLE NETWORK FROM FUNCTIONALIZED POLYETHERIMIDE AND THERMOSET POLYMER RESULTING THEREFROM LIU, ZHEN 45d overdue
18287577 SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE MEMBRANE OBTAINED BY CARBONIZATION SULFONATED POLY(PHENYLENE ETHER) COPOLYMER BASS, DIRK R 31d overdue
17782273 TRANSPARENT, FLAME-RETARDANT HIGH-HEAT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS FOR THIN WALL APPLICATIONS OYER, ANDREW J 17d overdue
18272729 THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 5d
19080211 METHOD OF PREPARING POLYMER PARTICLES AND POLYMER PARTICLES PREPARED THEREBY SERGENT, RABON A 22d
18202171 TRANSPARENT FLAME RETARDANT DUCTILE COMPOSITIONS AND THIN-WALL ARTICLES THEREOF JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 49d
18274559 COMPOSITION OF METHACRYLATE (CO) POLYMER AND POLY(CARBONATE-SILOXANE) BLOCKCOPOLYMER AND ITS USE IN SCRATCH AND IMPACT RESITANT ARTICLES SASTRI, SATYA B 68d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
SABIC 10

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17653
17622
17672
17791
17661
17641

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19114919 POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITION, ARTICLES FORMED THEREFROM, AND METHODS FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF Shpp Global Technologies B.V. BUTTNER, DAVID J 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Mar 25, 2025
19080211 METHOD OF PREPARING POLYMER PARTICLES AND POLYMER PARTICLES PREPARED THEREBY Shpp Global Technologies B.V. SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Mar 14, 2025
18287577 SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE MEMBRANE OBTAINED BY CARBONIZATION SULFONATED POLY(PHENYLENE ETHER) COPOLYMER Shpp Global Technologies B.V. BASS, DIRK R 1779 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18274559 COMPOSITION OF METHACRYLATE (CO) POLYMER AND POLY(CARBONATE-SILOXANE) BLOCKCOPOLYMER AND ITS USE IN SCRATCH AND IMPACT RESITANT ARTICLES Shpp Global Technologies B.V. SASTRI, SATYA B 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 68d Pending Jul 27, 2023
18272729 THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITIONS AND USES THEREOF Shpp Global Technologies B.V. BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Jul 17, 2023
18202171 TRANSPARENT FLAME RETARDANT DUCTILE COMPOSITIONS AND THIN-WALL ARTICLES THEREOF Shpp Global Technologies B.V. JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1766 §103 Final Rejection 49d Pending May 25, 2023
18037404 POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND ARTICLES FORMED THEREFROM Shpp Global Technologies B.V. BROOKS, KREGG T 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18037152 POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND ARTICLES FORMED THEREFROM Shpp Global Technologies B.V. BUTTNER, DAVID J 1765 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending May 16, 2023
17782273 TRANSPARENT, FLAME-RETARDANT HIGH-HEAT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS FOR THIN WALL APPLICATIONS Shpp Global Technologies B.V. OYER, ANDREW J 1767 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2022
17433522 CROSS-LINKABLE NETWORK FROM FUNCTIONALIZED POLYETHERIMIDE AND THERMOSET POLYMER RESULTING THEREFROM Shpp Global Technologies B.V. LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2021

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