Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BASF Corporation

14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (79%)
2
Easy (14%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (64%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only2 (14%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

11
Life Sciences
79% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
14% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE 2 81.8% +4.9%
LEONG, NATHAN T 1 70.9% +24.5%
RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1 73.0% +29.6%
ST CYR, DANIEL 1 81.3% +13.3%
ROY, DEBJANI 1 74.6% +15.2%
WU, ANDREA 1 70.9% +26.1%
KOLB, NATHANIEL J 1 62.6% +36.2%
PAK, HANNAH J 1 78.1% +20.1%
UNG, LANNY N 1 71.3% +25.4%
XU, JIANGTIAN 1 65.5% +33.9%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18547407 COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING A PIGMENT PASTE COMPRISING AN ORGANIC PIGMENT AND AN ARYL-MODIFIED BRANCHED REACTION PRODUCT STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE 27d
18712831 APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL ACCESS ELEMENT ST CYR, DANIEL 63d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18839888 PROCESS FOR APPLYING COATING COMPOSITIONS HAVING DIFFERENT LEVELING PROPERTIES AND/OR SAG RESISTANCE TO DIFFERENT TARGET AREAS OF AN OBJECT LEONG, NATHAN T 49d overdue
18690769 METHOD FOR PRODUCING COATED NON-CROSSLINKING POLYMER MATERIALS ROY, DEBJANI 36d overdue
18000681 Visual Macro Language for Colorimetric Software UNG, LANNY N 26d overdue
18247949 METHOD OF PREPARING AN AQUEOUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE SLURRY, THE THUS PRODUCED SLURRY AND COATING COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SAME PAK, HANNAH J 6d
18557686 MIXER SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS COATING MATERIALS WU, ANDREA 12d
18718914 TINTED CLEARCOAT COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF PRODUCTION SUCH TINTED CLEARCOAT COMPOSITION RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 27d
18554381 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE FILL LEVEL OF A LIQUID IN A CONTAINER KOLB, NATHANIEL J 57d
18712831 APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL ACCESS ELEMENT ST CYR, DANIEL 63d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1766 2
1765 2
1718 1
1712 1
2876 1
1741 1
1763 1
2896 1
1764 1
2197 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18839888 PROCESS FOR APPLYING COATING COMPOSITIONS HAVING DIFFERENT LEVELING PROPERTIES AND/OR SAG RESISTANCE TO DIFFERENT TARGET AREAS OF AN OBJECT LEONG, NATHAN T 1718 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Aug 20, 2024
18718914 TINTED CLEARCOAT COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF PRODUCTION SUCH TINTED CLEARCOAT COMPOSITION RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1712 §102 Final Rejection 27d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18712831 APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DIGITAL ACCESS ELEMENT ST CYR, DANIEL 2876 §102 Non-Final OA 63d Pending May 23, 2024
18690769 METHOD FOR PRODUCING COATED NON-CROSSLINKING POLYMER MATERIALS ROY, DEBJANI 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Mar 11, 2024
18557686 MIXER SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING AQUEOUS COATING MATERIALS WU, ANDREA 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18554381 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING THE FILL LEVEL OF A LIQUID IN A CONTAINER KOLB, NATHANIEL J 2896 §112 Final Rejection 57d Pending Oct 06, 2023
18547407 COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING A PIGMENT PASTE COMPRISING AN ORGANIC PIGMENT AND AN ARYL-MODIFIED BRANCHED REACTION PRODUCT STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE 1766 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 22, 2023
18255683 ELECTRODEPOSITION COATING MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ALKOXYLATED POLYETHYLENEIMINES STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE 1766 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 02, 2023
18247949 METHOD OF PREPARING AN AQUEOUS TITANIUM DIOXIDE SLURRY, THE THUS PRODUCED SLURRY AND COATING COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING THE SAME PAK, HANNAH J 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Apr 05, 2023
18000681 Visual Macro Language for Colorimetric Software UNG, LANNY N 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2022
17997984 A Dual-Reactive Coating Composition, Its Preparation and Use Thereof XU, JIANGTIAN 1762 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 2022
17915425 SILANE-BASED COATING COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING A METAL ALKOXIDE CATALYST AND AN ACID-FUNCTIONAL POLYMER MOORE, MARGARET G 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 28, 2022
17756215 Electrodeposition Coating Material Containing Organic Polyhydroxy-Functional Anticorrosion Agents SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending May 19, 2022
17626391 ONE-PACK POLYURETHANE DISPERSIONS, THEIR MANUFACTURE AND USE DU, SURBHI M 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2022

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