Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 6 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
KEAN MILLER LLP focuses on Chemistry & Materials, with 559 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 78.29. Currently, there are 6 pending office actions in its docket. This 78.29 resolved allowance rate pct provides a measure of the firm's success in navigating the examination process for Chemistry & Materials patents. The 6 pending office actions are fewer than the 559 career applications.
The average number of office actions per allowance is 3.22. This metric indicates the level of engagement required to move an application from filing to grant in the Chemistry & Materials field. The firm's history of 559 applications provides a sample size for these performance statistics. The 3.22 avg office actions per allowance suggests that clients should expect interaction with the USPTO. Practitioners can use the resolved allowance rate pct and the avg office actions per allowance to set expectations for the prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, JASON | 1 | 53.7% | +15.6% |
| EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | 1 | 49.1% | +39.9% |
| BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 1 | 64.8% | +32.5% |
| OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1 | 52.9% | +11.8% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
| XU, JIANGTIAN | 1 | 65.3% | +35.8% |
| BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1 | 71.1% | +17.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18103399 | NANOHYBRID AND NANOCOMPOSITE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME | XU, JIANGTIAN | 19d overdue |
| 18867391 | LIGHT THERAPY BLANKET | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | — |
| 18755085 | CHEMICAL SENSORS USING COPPER HIGH-ASPECT STRUCTURES (CuHARS) AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 18718052 | SOLID-LIQUID BI-PHASE LUBRICATING DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING SAME | OLADAPO, TAIWO | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19209036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING LIQUID WASTE STREAMS | LAU, JASON | 146d overdue |
| 18454490 | Multiple Pipe Borehole Installation Device, Method, and System | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 84d overdue |
| 18103399 | NANOHYBRID AND NANOCOMPOSITE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME | XU, JIANGTIAN | 19d overdue |
| 17773816 | SURFACE ACTIVATED NANOHYBRID FLAME RETARDANTS AND POLYMERS PRODUCED THEREFROM | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 17d overdue |
| 18867391 | LIGHT THERAPY BLANKET | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | — |
| 18755085 | CHEMICAL SENSORS USING COPPER HIGH-ASPECT STRUCTURES (CuHARS) AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | — |
| 18718052 | SOLID-LIQUID BI-PHASE LUBRICATING DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING SAME | OLADAPO, TAIWO | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| P&S Global Holdings LLC | 2 |
| Regensyn Energy LLC | 1 |
| Equisol LLC | 1 |
| Louisiana Tech Research Corporation | 1 |
| P&S Global Holding LLC | 1 |
| BCM Hill Top Holdings, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19209036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING LIQUID WASTE STREAMS | Regensyn Energy LLC | LAU, JASON | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 146d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 18867391 | LIGHT THERAPY BLANKET | Equisol LLC | EISEMAN, LYNSEY C | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 | |
| 18755085 | CHEMICAL SENSORS USING COPPER HIGH-ASPECT STRUCTURES (CuHARS) AND METHODS FOR USING SAME | Louisiana Tech Research Corporation | BRYANT, REBECCA CAROLE | 2877 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18718052 | SOLID-LIQUID BI-PHASE LUBRICATING DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING SAME | P&S Global Holding LLC | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2024 |
| 18454490 | Multiple Pipe Borehole Installation Device, Method, and System | BCM Hill Top Holdings, LLC | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18103399 | NANOHYBRID AND NANOCOMPOSITE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME | P&S Global Holdings LLC | XU, JIANGTIAN | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 17773816 | SURFACE ACTIVATED NANOHYBRID FLAME RETARDANTS AND POLYMERS PRODUCED THEREFROM | P & S Global Holdings, LLC | BUTCHER, ROBERT T | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2022 |
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