Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gemini Law LLP has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials, against a career record of 105 applications. The resolved allowance rate is 86.49%, indicating a high proportion of allowance among the resolved matters measured in this profile.
An average of 4.31 office actions per allowance shows that allowance can require sustained prosecution even when the resolved outcome is favorable. The combination of a modest career application base and a relatively high action average makes individual case strategy particularly relevant to interpreting the record. Practitioners should examine amendment history, repeated art rejections, and the support for material or chemical limitations when managing the active docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICE, STEVEN | 4 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
| GOFF II, JOHN L | 1 | 59.5% | +31.0% |
| LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | 1 | 57.1% | +60.0% |
| BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 52.5% | +45.8% |
| SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1 | 15.2% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17997679 | SOLVENT-BASED LAMINATING ADHESIVE | RICE, STEVEN | 69d |
| 19230980 | Retort Adhesive Composition | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | — |
| 19223358 | Process for Forming a Laminate | GOFF II, JOHN L | — |
| 18937946 | TWO-COMPONENT SOLVENTLESS ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR ADHESION TO POLYMERIC BARRIER SUBSTRATES | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18890829 | METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BIOPHARMACEUTICALS | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — |
| 17436563 | Two-Component Solvent-Based Adhesive Composition | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251446 | Adhesive Composition | RICE, STEVEN | 66d overdue |
| 18040878 | TWO-COMPONENT SOLVENTLESS ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 27d |
| 17997679 | SOLVENT-BASED LAMINATING ADHESIVE | RICE, STEVEN | 69d |
| 17997681 | SOLVENT-BASED LAMINATING ADHESIVE | RICE, STEVEN | 69d |
| 19223358 | Process for Forming a Laminate | GOFF II, JOHN L | — |
| 18937946 | TWO-COMPONENT SOLVENTLESS ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR ADHESION TO POLYMERIC BARRIER SUBSTRATES | RICE, STEVEN | — |
| 18890829 | METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BIOPHARMACEUTICALS | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | — |
| 17436563 | Two-Component Solvent-Based Adhesive Composition | SHUKLA, KRUPA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Arkema | 8 |
| Richter Gedeon Nyrt. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 5 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1652 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19230980 | Retort Adhesive Composition | Arkema France | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19223358 | Process for Forming a Laminate | Arkema France | GOFF II, JOHN L | 1746 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 18937946 | TWO-COMPONENT SOLVENTLESS ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS FOR ADHESION TO POLYMERIC BARRIER SUBSTRATES | Arkema France | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18890829 | METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BIOPHARMACEUTICALS | Richter Gedeon Nyrt. | LOUNTOS, GEORGE THEMISTOCLIS | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18251446 | Adhesive Composition | Arkema France | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18040878 | TWO-COMPONENT SOLVENTLESS ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME | Arkema France | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1765 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
| 17997679 | SOLVENT-BASED LAMINATING ADHESIVE | Arkema France | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 17997681 | SOLVENT-BASED LAMINATING ADHESIVE | Arkema France | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Nov 01, 2022 |
| 17436563 | Two-Component Solvent-Based Adhesive Composition | Arkema France | SHUKLA, KRUPA | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial86.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Gemini Law LLP were allowed, across 105 applications in USPTO records.
4.31 office actions per allowed application on average.
9 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.
