Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alfa Laval Corporate AB has 17 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 10 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, showing meaningful concentration within the prosecution network. Repeated examiner and art-unit relationships create a basis for tracking recurring examination patterns and coordinating related claim strategies.
COOLEY, CHARLES E is the busiest examiner, with 6 pending matters. This examiner represents the principal concentration point in the docket, making examiner-specific preparation and consistent treatment of related amendments particularly important. Broader portfolio management remains necessary because the remaining matters are distributed among other examiners and art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (20%) |
| §112 only | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 3 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| LIU, SHUYI S | 3 | 73.4% | +25.8% |
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.7% | +26.6% |
| NIEVES, NELSON J | 1 | 75.5% | +16.5% |
| ALVARE, PAUL | 1 | 57.6% | +36.8% |
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 54.0% | +27.2% |
| ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 1 | 73.8% | +24.6% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.0% | +20.1% |
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.2% | +55.6% |
| BECKER, DREW E | 1 | 49.0% | +0.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19225570 | METHOD AND FILLING DEVICE FOR FILLING FLEXIBLE CONTAINERS WITH POURABLE PRODUCTS | HODGE, LINDA J | 19d |
| 19110783 | A HEAT EXCHANGER | ALVARE, PAUL | — |
| 19107907 | METHOD FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF A PLATE PACKAGE OF A PLATE AND FIN HEAT EXCHANGER AND A PLATE AND FIN HEAT EXCHANGER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
| 18859483 | A TOOL HEAD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEPARATION DISC AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEPARATION DISC USING A TOOL HEAD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| 18857569 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| 18855946 | UV-TREATMENT UNIT | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| 18714995 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR AND AN INTERFACE LEVEL SENSOR | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18570717 | A METHOD OF OPERATING A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19225570 | METHOD AND FILLING DEVICE FOR FILLING FLEXIBLE CONTAINERS WITH POURABLE PRODUCTS | HODGE, LINDA J | 19d |
| 18037177 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR AND A METHOD OF OPERATING A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | 34d |
| 19111950 | A Plate Heat Exchanger | NIEVES, NELSON J | — |
| 19110783 | A HEAT EXCHANGER | ALVARE, PAUL | — |
| 19107907 | METHOD FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF A PLATE PACKAGE OF A PLATE AND FIN HEAT EXCHANGER AND A PLATE AND FIN HEAT EXCHANGER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
| 18859483 | A TOOL HEAD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEPARATION DISC AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEPARATION DISC USING A TOOL HEAD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | — |
| 18857569 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| 18855946 | UV-TREATMENT UNIT | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 5 |
| 3763 | 3 |
| 1792 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19225570 | METHOD AND FILLING DEVICE FOR FILLING FLEXIBLE CONTAINERS WITH POURABLE PRODUCTS | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19111950 | A Plate Heat Exchanger | NIEVES, NELSON J | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19110783 | A HEAT EXCHANGER | ALVARE, PAUL | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19107907 | METHOD FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF A PLATE PACKAGE OF A PLATE AND FIN HEAT EXCHANGER AND A PLATE AND FIN HEAT EXCHANGER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 18859483 | A TOOL HEAD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEPARATION DISC AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEPARATION DISC USING A TOOL HEAD | ALAWADI, MOHAMMED S | 3725 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18857569 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18855946 | UV-TREATMENT UNIT | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18714995 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR AND AN INTERFACE LEVEL SENSOR | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18691321 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR HAVING A HERMETIC INLET AND OUTLET | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18577908 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN INSECT-BASED, LOW-FAT PROTEIN MEAL FROM AN INSECT-BASED RAW MATERIAL | BECKER, DREW E | 1792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18570717 | A METHOD OF OPERATING A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | 1792 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18565201 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR HANDLING VENT GAS MIXTURE | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18286423 | MODULAR CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR SYSTEM AND EXCHANGEABLE SEPARATION INSERT | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18037177 | A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR AND A METHOD OF OPERATING A CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR | LIU, SHUYI S | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
| 18035714 | A METHOD OF GREASING A DECANTER CENTRIFUGE | LIU, SHUYI S | 1774 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAlfa Laval Corporate AB has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 11 examiners.
Charles E Cooley has the most, with 3 of Alfa Laval Corporate AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
