Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
OBWB - Solvay (ECo) specializes in Chemistry & Materials, having processed 54 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 80.0 percent, reflecting its success in obtaining patent grants within this technical field. Prosecution for this profile involves an average of 4.33 office actions per allowance, indicating the examination process required for these matters.
Currently, the firm is managing 9 pending office actions. The 4.33 average office actions per allowance suggests that chemistry-related matters for this client often require repeated rounds of negotiation with the patent office. With 54 career applications, the firm has an established record in this specific materials science niche.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUNG, CHING-YIU | 2 | 32.4% | +20.8% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.7% | +48.5% |
| JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1 | 49.5% | +32.5% |
| LIU, TRACY | 1 | 54.5% | +27.3% |
| KOSLOW, CAROL M | 1 | 81.6% | +12.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17768119 | USE OF SILICATES IN A GREENHOUSE FILM FOR INCREASING FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 33d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028096 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MARINE BIODEGRADABILITY OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 14d |
| 17928224 | ALUMINIUM AND ZIRCONIUM-BASED MIXED OXIDE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18430385 | FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICULATE BICARBONATE AS BLOWING AGENT, FOAMABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT, AND ITS USE IN MANUFACTURING A THERMOPLASTIC FOAMED POLYMER | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 8d |
| 18028096 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MARINE BIODEGRADABILITY OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 14d |
| 17768119 | USE OF SILICATES IN A GREENHOUSE FILM FOR INCREASING FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 33d |
| 18041503 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING SPHERICAL POLYMERIC PARTICLES FOR COSMETIC APPLICATION | LIU, TRACY | 39d |
| 17928224 | ALUMINIUM AND ZIRCONIUM-BASED MIXED OXIDE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| 17781282 | ALUMINA WITH A PARTICULAR PORE PROFILE | FUNG, CHING-YIU | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Solvay | 2 |
| RHODIA BRASIL S.A. | 2 |
| RHODIA OPERATIONS | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 2 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1614 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18430385 | FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICULATE BICARBONATE AS BLOWING AGENT, FOAMABLE POLYMER COMPOSITION CONTAINING IT, AND ITS USE IN MANUFACTURING A THERMOPLASTIC FOAMED POLYMER | Solvay SA | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18028096 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MARINE BIODEGRADABILITY OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITIONS | Rhodia Brasil S.A. | JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R | 1766 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18041503 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING SPHERICAL POLYMERIC PARTICLES FOR COSMETIC APPLICATION | Rhodia Brasil S.A. | LIU, TRACY | 1614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Feb 13, 2023 |
| 17928224 | ALUMINIUM AND ZIRCONIUM-BASED MIXED OXIDE | Rhodia Operations | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17781282 | ALUMINA WITH A PARTICULAR PORE PROFILE | Rhodia Operations | FUNG, CHING-YIU | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2022 |
| 17768119 | USE OF SILICATES IN A GREENHOUSE FILM FOR INCREASING FRUIT DEVELOPMENT OF PLANTS | Solvay SA | KOSLOW, CAROL M | 1734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Apr 11, 2022 |
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