Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Agfa-Gevaert NV has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that at least one examiner and art-unit assignment covers more than one pending matter.
KEELING, ALEXANDER W is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration gives counsel a defined examiner focus for multiple responses, while the remaining work requires attention to the other recorded assignment.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 2 | 56.0% | +37.9% |
| SHOMER, ISAAC | 1 | 63.1% | +30.5% |
| ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | 1 | 46.1% | +22.4% |
| CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1 | 54.3% | +33.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576447 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | — |
| 18576450 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | — |
| 18284749 | NIR ABSORBING CAPSULES | ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576447 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | — |
| 18576450 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | — |
| 18284807 | NEAR INFRARED ABSORBING COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES | SHOMER, ISAAC | — |
| 18284749 | NIR ABSORBING CAPSULES | ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | — |
| 18013597 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 2 |
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1618 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18576447 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18576450 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18284807 | NEAR INFRARED ABSORBING COMPOSITE RESIN PARTICLES | SHOMER, ISAAC | 1612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18284749 | NIR ABSORBING CAPSULES | ROGERS, JAMES WILLIAM | 1618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18013597 | A Separator for Alkaline Water Electrolysis | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1794 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAgfa-Gevaert NV has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Alexander W Keeling has the most, with 2 of Agfa-Gevaert NV's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
