Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Avantium Knowledge Centre B.V. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each application is being evaluated by a different individual. This distribution suggests that the company's current patent filings are subject to independent reviews across the patent office.
The prosecution effort involves 3 distinct art units, reflecting the technical breadth of the pending applications. This variety of art units means that the company's legal strategy must account for the different practices of 3 technical groups. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is NGUYEN, HA S, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner's workload represents a specific portion of the total pending actions identified.
Because the 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, there is no central point of contact for the portfolio's current prosecution. Practitioners should be prepared to navigate different administrative channels to monitor the progress of these applications. The use of 3 distinct art units underscores the need for a strategy that addresses the requirements of the identified technical divisions within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HA S | 1 | 58.5% | -20.7% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.7% | +24.5% |
| BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1 | 80.6% | +27.8% |
| MURESAN, ANA Z | 1 | 75.0% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714491 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYESTER COPOLYMERS | NGUYEN, HA S | — |
| 18284997 | PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING GLYCOLS FROM CARBOHYDRATES AND HYDROGEN WITH REACTOR OFF-GAS TREATMENT AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294919 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYESTER COPOLYMERS | YOON, TAE H | — |
| 18284997 | PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING GLYCOLS FROM CARBOHYDRATES AND HYDROGEN WITH REACTOR OFF-GAS TREATMENT AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | — |
| 18268422 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING OXALATE AND OXALIC ACID WITH HYDRIDE CATALYST | MURESAN, ANA Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 2 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18714491 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYESTER COPOLYMERS | NGUYEN, HA S | 1766 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18294919 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF POLYESTER COPOLYMERS | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18284997 | PROCESS AND EQUIPMENT FOR PRODUCING GLYCOLS FROM CARBOHYDRATES AND HYDROGEN WITH REACTOR OFF-GAS TREATMENT AND HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1692 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18268422 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING OXALATE AND OXALIC ACID WITH HYDRIDE CATALYST | MURESAN, ANA Z | 1692 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAvantium Knowledge Centre B.V. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Ha S Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Avantium Knowledge Centre B.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
