Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 3 clients • 10 examiners • 9 art units • 6 of 11 (55%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
This profile records 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 51502 career applications. The pending docket represents current activity, while the application figure supplies a broader measure of the recorded prosecution history.
The resolved allowance rate is 79.75%, with an average of 3.34 office actions per allowance. These figures indicate that allowed matters generally involved more than three office actions, alongside a resolved allowance result below four-fifths.
Practitioners can use the combination to distinguish workload from outcome history. The technology designation also helps frame the relevance of the figures for chemistry and materials matters, but the data does not identify matter-level complexity or claim strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 5 (45%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (45%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIGGS, TANISHA | 2 | 55.1% | +54.1% |
| PATEL, SMITA S | 1 | 70.3% | +57.3% |
| O'HERN, BRENT T | 1 | 78.5% | +19.4% |
| GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1 | 85.0% | +13.4% |
| SALAMON, PETER A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.9% |
| BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1 | 43.9% | +45.8% |
| LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ALAM, AYAAN A | 1 | 38.8% | +36.4% |
| D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 68.3% | +41.7% |
| CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 1 | 67.0% | +12.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547538 | PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR USE AS CAT LITTER | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 22d |
| 18289256 | FLAME-RETARDANT POLYMER COMPOSITION | SALAMON, PETER A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722730 | PREPARATION OF ALPHA-ALUMINA IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS07812.0263 | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18711316 | A COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING CALCIUM SILICATE AND PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE PARTICULATE MATERIAL | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18699962 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBON BLACK AND EXPANDED GRAPHITE AND SHAPED ARTICLES AND SUBSTRATE COATINGS COMPRISING SAME, USES THEREOF AND METHODS FOR REDUCING VOLUME RESISTIVITY AND FOR PROVIDING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING AS WELL AS THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | DIGGS, TANISHA | — |
| 18566894 | ANTI-BREAKING ELEMENT COMPRISING A GEOPOLYMER COMBINING FIRE RESISTANCE AND BREAK-IN RESISTANCE | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| 18555436 | TALC PARTICULATES | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17299653 | EXPANDED AND EXPANDABLE GRANULAR MATERIALS | DIGGS, TANISHA | 86d overdue |
| 15733316 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SYNTHETIC PHYLLOSILICATES | CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 80d overdue |
| 17800554 | USE OF MICA IN PRESSED POWDER | ALAM, AYAAN A | 29d overdue |
| 17767223 | GRAPHITE COMPOSITIONS AND USES IN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 5d |
| 18722730 | PREPARATION OF ALPHA-ALUMINA IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS07812.0263 | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| 18711316 | A COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING CALCIUM SILICATE AND PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE PARTICULATE MATERIAL | O'HERN, BRENT T | — |
| 18699962 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBON BLACK AND EXPANDED GRAPHITE AND SHAPED ARTICLES AND SUBSTRATE COATINGS COMPRISING SAME, USES THEREOF AND METHODS FOR REDUCING VOLUME RESISTIVITY AND FOR PROVIDING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING AS WELL AS THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | DIGGS, TANISHA | — |
| 18566894 | ANTI-BREAKING ELEMENT COMPRISING A GEOPOLYMER COMBINING FIRE RESISTANCE AND BREAK-IN RESISTANCE | GREEN, ANTHONY J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| IMERTECH | 9 |
| Imerys | 1 |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 2 |
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1793 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1611 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18722730 | PREPARATION OF ALPHA-ALUMINA IN SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS07812.0263 | IMERTECH SAS | PATEL, SMITA S | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18711316 | A COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING CALCIUM SILICATE AND PRECIPITATED CALCIUM CARBONATE PARTICULATE MATERIAL | IMERTECH SAS | O'HERN, BRENT T | 1793 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18699962 | COMPOSITION COMPRISING CARBON BLACK AND EXPANDED GRAPHITE AND SHAPED ARTICLES AND SUBSTRATE COATINGS COMPRISING SAME, USES THEREOF AND METHODS FOR REDUCING VOLUME RESISTIVITY AND FOR PROVIDING ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE SHIELDING AS WELL AS THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | IMERTECH SAS | DIGGS, TANISHA | 1761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18566894 | ANTI-BREAKING ELEMENT COMPRISING A GEOPOLYMER COMBINING FIRE RESISTANCE AND BREAK-IN RESISTANCE | IMERTECH SAS | GREEN, ANTHONY J | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18289256 | FLAME-RETARDANT POLYMER COMPOSITION | Imerys Usa, Inc. | SALAMON, PETER A | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18555436 | TALC PARTICULATES | IMERTECH SAS | BLEDSOE, JOSHUA CALEB | 1762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Oct 13, 2023 |
| 18547538 | PARTICULATE MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR USE AS CAT LITTER | IMERTECH SAS | LEAVITT, MORDECAI MIZANI | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | AI Ready | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 17800554 | USE OF MICA IN PRESSED POWDER | IMERTECH SAS | ALAM, AYAAN A | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | AI Ready | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 17767223 | GRAPHITE COMPOSITIONS AND USES IN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY | IMERTECH SAS | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | AI Ready | Apr 07, 2022 |
| 17299653 | EXPANDED AND EXPANDABLE GRANULAR MATERIALS | IMERTECH SAS | DIGGS, TANISHA | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 03, 2021 |
| 15733316 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SYNTHETIC PHYLLOSILICATES | Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique | CORALLO, CATRIONA MARY | 1732 | §112 | Final Rejection | 80d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 25, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial79.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP were allowed, across 51,502 applications in USPTO records.
3.34 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 10 examiners in 9 art units.
