Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aquatech International LLC has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, giving each action a distinct examination setting.
CHU, YONG LIANG is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate the technical record across the portfolio while developing responses specific to each examiner and art unit.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, YONG LIANG | 1 | 74.9% | +3.2% |
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1 | 35.0% | +10.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426376 | PROCESS FOR SELECTIVE PURIFICATION OF LITHIUM FROM AN AQUEOUS LITHIUM SALT-CONTAINING SOLUTION | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18664346 | PROCESS FOR OBTAINING HIGH PURITY LITHIUM FROM AN AQUEOUS LITHIUM SALT-CONTAINING SOLUTION | CHU, YONG LIANG | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426376 | PROCESS FOR SELECTIVE PURIFICATION OF LITHIUM FROM AN AQUEOUS LITHIUM SALT-CONTAINING SOLUTION | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18056985 | Process of Mitigation and Control of BioFilm | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18664346 | PROCESS FOR OBTAINING HIGH PURITY LITHIUM FROM AN AQUEOUS LITHIUM SALT-CONTAINING SOLUTION | CHU, YONG LIANG | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18426376 | PROCESS FOR SELECTIVE PURIFICATION OF LITHIUM FROM AN AQUEOUS LITHIUM SALT-CONTAINING SOLUTION | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18056985 | Process of Mitigation and Control of BioFilm | GERMAIN, ADAM ADRIEN | 1772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAquatech International LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Yong Liang Chu has the most, with 1 of Aquatech International LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
