Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 3 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
DORITY & MANNING, P.A. & W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. handles Chemistry & Materials. The firm has 28235 career applications and an 88.31 percent resolved allowance rate. There are 3 pending office actions. The firm averages 3.39 office actions per allowance.
The 3 pending office actions for W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. are managed alongside the firm's 28235 career applications. The 88.31 percent allowance rate is the standard for the firm's prosecution efforts in Chemistry & Materials.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 3 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, RIP A | 2 | 83.5% | -4.2% |
| DIAMOND, ALAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +8.5% |
| CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | 1 | 72.9% | +9.5% |
| TESKIN, FRED M | 1 | 89.6% | +8.0% |
| ZHANG, RUIYUN | 1 | 70.4% | +10.6% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.3% | +8.0% |
| STEIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 45.2% | +35.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18039704 | POLYPROPYLENE POLYMER FOR PRODUCING BIAXIALLY ORIENTED FILMS AND OTHER ARTICLES | LEE, RIP A | 22d overdue |
| 18576017 | PROPYLENE TERPOLYMER AND HEAT SEAL FILMS MADE THEREFROM | LEE, RIP A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19637750 | CATALYST COMPOSITION AND SYSTEM HAVING EXTENDED LIFETIME | DIAMOND, ALAN D | — |
| 18879343 | FCC PROCESS USEFUL FOR PRODUCTION OF PETROCHEMICALS | CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | — |
| 18682388 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYOLEFIN GRANULAR RESIN WITH INCREASED SETTLED BULK DENSITY | TESKIN, FRED M | — |
| 18568565 | POLYPROPYLENE RANDOM COPOLYMER FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING AND FILAMENT MADE THEREFROM | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — |
| 18560378 | POLYETHYLENE COPOLYMER WITH BROAD SHORT CHAIN BRANCHING DISTRIBUTION | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18282491 | STATIONARY PHASE FOR PURIFICATION OF CANNABIDIOL WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568565 | POLYPROPYLENE RANDOM COPOLYMER FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING AND FILAMENT MADE THEREFROM | ZHANG, RUIYUN | — |
| 18560378 | POLYETHYLENE COPOLYMER WITH BROAD SHORT CHAIN BRANCHING DISTRIBUTION | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18016099 | PROCESS FOR CATALYTIC CRACKING AND EQUILIBRIUM FCC CATALYST | STEIN, MICHELLE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| W. R. Grace & Co.-conn. | 6 |
| W. R. GRACE & CO.-CONN. | 2 |
| W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3991 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19637750 | CATALYST COMPOSITION AND SYSTEM HAVING EXTENDED LIFETIME | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | DIAMOND, ALAN D | 3991 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2026 |
| 18879343 | FCC PROCESS USEFUL FOR PRODUCTION OF PETROCHEMICALS | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | CAMPANELL, FRANCIS C | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 | |
| 18682388 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYOLEFIN GRANULAR RESIN WITH INCREASED SETTLED BULK DENSITY | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | TESKIN, FRED M | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 | |
| 18576017 | PROPYLENE TERPOLYMER AND HEAT SEAL FILMS MADE THEREFROM | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | LEE, RIP A | 1763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
| 18568565 | POLYPROPYLENE RANDOM COPOLYMER FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING AND FILAMENT MADE THEREFROM | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | ZHANG, RUIYUN | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 | |
| 18560378 | POLYETHYLENE COPOLYMER WITH BROAD SHORT CHAIN BRANCHING DISTRIBUTION | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | LING, DORIS | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 | |
| 18282491 | STATIONARY PHASE FOR PURIFICATION OF CANNABIDIOL WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18039704 | POLYPROPYLENE POLYMER FOR PRODUCING BIAXIALLY ORIENTED FILMS AND OTHER ARTICLES | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | LEE, RIP A | 1762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
| 18016099 | PROCESS FOR CATALYTIC CRACKING AND EQUILIBRIUM FCC CATALYST | W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn. | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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