Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 9 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners across 8 distinct art units, creating a broad prosecution workload with multiple examiner and art-unit interfaces. The profile supports centralized docket oversight, but the spread of assignments requires responses tailored to individual examination contexts.
KING, BRIAN M is the busiest examiner with 2 pending matters. That concentration provides a defined relationship for monitoring, while the remaining matters call for separate assessments of claim construction, cited references, and technical disclosure. A portfolio-level review can improve consistency in chemistry and materials terminology without treating the matters as interchangeable.
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 | 4 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, BRIAN M | 2 | 70.3% | +23.7% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.4% | +21.6% |
| GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | 1 | 68.2% | +17.5% |
| LI, JUN | 1 | 54.5% | +57.0% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.0% | +20.1% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.4% | +8.1% |
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +13.7% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.1% | +18.4% |
| LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.8% | +12.2% |
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1 | 34.8% | +41.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18782195 | CO2 PIPELINE CORROSION | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | — |
| 18607928 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING NITROGEN AND OXYGEN | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18498975 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR STEAM REFORMING | FORREST, MICHAEL | — |
| 18477815 | Gasifier Throat Cooling | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18198872 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS TO CONTROL PROVIDING OF ELECTROLYZER WATER FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | — |
| 18144908 | Apparatus and Process for Oxygen Production | NGUYEN, HUY TRAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19179019 | Low Temperature Membrane System for Biogas Upgrading | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| 18782195 | CO2 PIPELINE CORROSION | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | — |
| 18611919 | Process and Apparatus for Cracking Ammonia | LI, JUN | — |
| 18607928 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING NITROGEN AND OXYGEN | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18544710 | Apparatus and Method for Nitrogen Generation for Methanol Powered Maritime Vehicle | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| 18498975 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR STEAM REFORMING | FORREST, MICHAEL | — |
| 18498480 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR STEAM REFORMING | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| 18477815 | Gasifier Throat Cooling | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 2 |
| 3763 | 2 |
| 1736 | 2 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19179019 | Low Temperature Membrane System for Biogas Upgrading | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18782195 | CO2 PIPELINE CORROSION | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | 1767 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18611919 | Process and Apparatus for Cracking Ammonia | LI, JUN | 1732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18607928 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING NITROGEN AND OXYGEN | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18544710 | Apparatus and Method for Nitrogen Generation for Methanol Powered Maritime Vehicle | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18569450 | RECOVERY OF A RENEWABLE HYDROGEN PRODUCT FROM AN AMMONIA CRACKING PROCESS | HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1736 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18498975 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR STEAM REFORMING | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18498480 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR STEAM REFORMING | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18477815 | Gasifier Throat Cooling | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18234620 | Apparatus and Process for Pre-Liquefaction Fluid Processing for Improved Liquefaction Operations | KING, BRIAN M | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18198872 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS TO CONTROL PROVIDING OF ELECTROLYZER WATER FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1795 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18144908 | Apparatus and Process for Oxygen Production | NGUYEN, HUY TRAM | 1774 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAir Products and Chemicals Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 11 examiners.
Brian M King has the most, with 2 of Air Products and Chemicals Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
