Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. currently faces 14 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is being examined by 13 distinct examiners, indicating a broad distribution of the workload across the patent office. These actions are further categorized into 7 distinct art units, which reflects a diverse array of chemical and material science innovations being pursued by the company.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is KING, BRIAN M, who is managing 2 pending office actions. The other pending office actions are spread nearly evenly across the 13 distinct examiners, with most handling only one case. This level of distribution means that the company's prosecution success is not overly dependent on any single individual, though it does require managing many unique examiner relationships. The presence of 7 distinct art units suggests that the legal team must be prepared for varying levels of scrutiny and different technical standards across the Chemistry & Materials sector.
With 14 pending office actions in play, the administrative complexity is significant. KING, BRIAN M is the only examiner with more than one action, holding 2. This concentration is minimal compared to the total volume, emphasizing the need for a decentralized but coordinated prosecution strategy. Practitioners should look for commonalities across the 7 distinct art units to find efficiencies in their responses while remaining mindful of the different examiner perspectives involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (42%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 | 70.1% | +23.8% |
| GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | 1 | 68.0% | +17.7% |
| LI, JUN | 1 | 54.6% | +56.8% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 78.2% | +22.2% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
| HENDRICKSON, STUART L | 1 | 72.3% | +8.0% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.0% | +18.5% |
| LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.9% | +12.5% |
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.9% | +35.8% |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239816 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CRYOGENIC LIQUID VAPORIZATION TO RE-COOL GAS FOR CRYOGENIC FLUID RECOVERY | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 28d overdue |
| 18782195 | CO2 PIPELINE CORROSION | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | — |
| 18607928 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR PROVIDING NITROGEN AND OXYGEN | KING, BRIAN M | — |
| 18409971 | Purification of Concentrated Aqueous Hydroxide Solutions for Electrolysis | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18477815 | Gasifier Throat Cooling | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115918 | WATER GAS SHIFT UNIT STEAM SUPERHEATER | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 50d overdue |
| 18239816 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CRYOGENIC LIQUID VAPORIZATION TO RE-COOL GAS FOR CRYOGENIC FLUID RECOVERY | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 28d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18409971 | Purification of Concentrated Aqueous Hydroxide Solutions for Electrolysis | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18544710 | Apparatus and Method for Nitrogen Generation for Methanol Powered Maritime Vehicle | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| 18498480 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR STEAM REFORMING | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18782195 | CO2 PIPELINE CORROSION | GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18611919 | Process and Apparatus for Cracking Ammonia | LI, JUN | — | §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 |
| 18409971 | Purification of Concentrated Aqueous Hydroxide Solutions for Electrolysis | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 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 | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 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 |
| 18239816 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CRYOGENIC LIQUID VAPORIZATION TO RE-COOL GAS FOR CRYOGENIC FLUID RECOVERY | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 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 |
| 18115918 | WATER GAS SHIFT UNIT STEAM SUPERHEATER | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2023 |
| 18085675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF POWER IN AN INDUSTRIAL GAS PRODUCTION FACILITY | GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
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