Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
ALBEMARLE Corporation has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 8 examiners and 8 art units, showing complete distribution across the available examination assignments. This profile requires strong centralized docket management, but substantive prosecution must be organized at the application level because no examiner or art unit carries more than one identified action.
RUTISER, CLAIRE A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner handles one file, while the other matters are distributed among separate examiners and art units. Counsel can coordinate common chemistry terminology and technical evidence, but should avoid relying on a single examiner pattern when planning responses for the broader portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1 | 41.9% | +22.8% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 77.7% | +23.2% |
| RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1 | 45.5% | +33.7% |
| STULII, VERA | 1 | 32.7% | +24.9% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.3% | +17.2% |
| CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1 | 66.0% | +26.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019311 | ADDITIVES FOR FLAME RETARDED POLYOLEFINS | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 21d |
| 18292383 | PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN HALIDE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING ORGANIC IMPURITIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18019311 | ADDITIVES FOR FLAME RETARDED POLYOLEFINS | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 21d |
| 18693710 | PRE-LITHIATION OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODES | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18292383 | PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN HALIDE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING ORGANIC IMPURITIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| 18404470 | Flame Retarded Polyurethane Foam | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | — |
| 18522603 | Microbiocidal Control in The Processing of Poultry | STULII, VERA | — |
| 17777350 | Flame Retardants For Lithium Batteries | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1751 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693710 | PRE-LITHIATION OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ANODES | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1751 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18292383 | PROCESS FOR PURIFYING HYDROGEN HALIDE SOLUTIONS CONTAINING ORGANIC IMPURITIES | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18404470 | Flame Retarded Polyurethane Foam | RIETH, STEPHEN EDWARD | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18522603 | Microbiocidal Control in The Processing of Poultry | STULII, VERA | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18019311 | ADDITIVES FOR FLAME RETARDED POLYOLEFINS | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17777350 | Flame Retardants For Lithium Batteries | CLARY, KAYLA ELAINE | 1721 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialALBEMARLE Corporation has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Claire A Rutiser has the most, with 1 of ALBEMARLE Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
