Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 1 client • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cantor Colburn - SABIC General focuses on the Chemistry & Materials technology area, leveraging the firm's broader experience of 74190 career applications. This specific profile manages 7 pending office actions, indicating a focused subset of active matters within a larger institutional framework. The firm's extensive history provides a deep context for its work in chemical and material science patents.
The firm achieves a resolved allowance rate pct of 88.07, showing success in obtaining patent grants. This performance is reached with an avg_office_actions_per_allowance of 3.16, which suggests an efficient path through the USPTO examination process. The 88.07 resolved allowance rate pct reflects the firm's effectiveness in the Chemistry & Materials field. With 74190 career applications as a foundation, the 3.16 avg_office_actions_per_allowance provides a clear expectation for the duration of the prosecution cycle. These metrics together illustrate an effective and experienced patent practice that consistently delivers results for its clients.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 2 | 66.7% | +40.8% |
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.0% | +24.1% |
| BASS, DIRK R | 1 | 62.4% | +22.8% |
| DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1 | 74.4% | +12.4% |
| MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1 | 58.5% | +16.0% |
| SASTRI, SATYA B | 1 | 62.6% | +29.4% |
| STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1 | 82.0% | +12.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19080211 | METHOD OF PREPARING POLYMER PARTICLES AND POLYMER PARTICLES PREPARED THEREBY | SERGENT, RABON A | 22d |
| 18274559 | COMPOSITION OF METHACRYLATE (CO) POLYMER AND POLY(CARBONATE-SILOXANE) BLOCKCOPOLYMER AND ITS USE IN SCRATCH AND IMPACT RESITANT ARTICLES | SASTRI, SATYA B | 68d |
| 18561394 | WEATHERABLE POLYESTER CARBONATES COPOLYMERS FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR TRAIN COMPONENTS | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 18038828 | COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND ARTICLES PREPARED THEREFROM | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287577 | SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE MEMBRANE OBTAINED BY CARBONIZATION SULFONATED POLY(PHENYLENE ETHER) COPOLYMER | BASS, DIRK R | 31d overdue |
| 19080211 | METHOD OF PREPARING POLYMER PARTICLES AND POLYMER PARTICLES PREPARED THEREBY | SERGENT, RABON A | 22d |
| 18274559 | COMPOSITION OF METHACRYLATE (CO) POLYMER AND POLY(CARBONATE-SILOXANE) BLOCKCOPOLYMER AND ITS USE IN SCRATCH AND IMPACT RESITANT ARTICLES | SASTRI, SATYA B | 68d |
| 18842956 | TRANSPARENT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 18561394 | WEATHERABLE POLYESTER CARBONATES COPOLYMERS FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR TRAIN COMPONENTS | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 18281501 | POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS FOR RAIL INTERIORS | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | — |
| 18281048 | THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITIONS | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | — |
| 18038828 | COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND ARTICLES PREPARED THEREFROM | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SABIC | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19080211 | METHOD OF PREPARING POLYMER PARTICLES AND POLYMER PARTICLES PREPARED THEREBY | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18842956 | TRANSPARENT POLYCARBONATE COMPOSITIONS | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18561394 | WEATHERABLE POLYESTER CARBONATES COPOLYMERS FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR TRAIN COMPONENTS | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 | |
| 18287577 | SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE MEMBRANE OBTAINED BY CARBONIZATION SULFONATED POLY(PHENYLENE ETHER) COPOLYMER | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18281501 | POLYCARBONATE COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS FOR RAIL INTERIORS | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | DONAHUE, OLGA LUCIA | 1763 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
| 18281048 | THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITIONS | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | MCCULLEY, MEGAN CASSANDRA | 1767 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 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§112 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Jul 27, 2023 |
| 18038828 | COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF, AND ARTICLES PREPARED THEREFROM | Shpp Global Technologies B.V. | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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