Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
362 pending office actions • 114 art units • 278 examiners • 0 of 362 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 332 patents granted in the last 365 days
BASF SE has 347 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 266 examiners and 114 art units, requiring extensive coordination across a large and varied prosecution record.
KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V is the busiest examiner, with 6 pending matters. That relationship merits targeted monitoring, but the overall examiner distribution shows that most matters require separate management. The art-unit spread supports centralized technology and claim-issue tracking, while preserving examiner-specific response strategies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 106 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 106 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 5 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 50 (14%) |
| §103 only | 123 (34%) |
| §102 only | 7 (2%) |
| §112 only | 16 (4%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 33 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 121 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (1%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 5 | 69.6% | +25.5% |
| LOVE, TREVOR M | 4 | 43.1% | +26.8% |
| LI, JUN | 4 | 54.5% | +57.0% |
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 4 | 66.3% | +33.1% |
| SAEED, ALI S | 3 | 31.6% | +33.8% |
| PAK, JOHN D | 3 | 52.3% | +37.8% |
| STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 3 | 12.5% | +42.9% |
| BONAPARTE, AMY C | 3 | 79.1% | +23.5% |
| DESTEFANO, AUDRA JEAN | 3 | 57.5% | +57.2% |
| PARSA, JAFAR F | 3 | 87.3% | +8.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287481 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING PHOSGENE | PARSA, JAFAR F | — |
| 18555120 | METHOD OF PREPARING ALIPHATIC POLYOLS HAVING THREE OR MORE HYDROXY GROUPS AND A TOTAL NUMBER OF CARBON ATOMS OF 5 OR MORE | PARSA, JAFAR F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18010218 | BIODEGRADABLE UV ABSORBERS | MURESAN, ANA Z | 168d overdue |
| 18018709 | A POLYESTER MOLDING COMPRISING A METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORK HAVING A LOW OUTGASSING OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 162d overdue |
| 18724452 | FIELD-SCALE CROP PHENOLOGY MODEL FOR COMPUTING PLANT DEVELOPMENT STAGES | CHOY, PAN G | 141d overdue |
| 17786864 | INCREASING SPACE-TIME-YIELD, CARBON-CONVERSION-EFFICIENCY AND CARBON SUBSTRATE FLEXIBILITY IN THE PRODUCTION OF FINE CHEMICALS | KOROTCHKINA, LIOUBOV G | 118d overdue |
| 17793755 | NOVEL ADDITIVES FOR AGROCHEMICAL FORMULATIONS | PALLAY, MICHAEL B | 112d overdue |
| 18705253 | TRANSCRIPTION REGULATING NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND METHODS OF USE | KEOGH, MATTHEW R | 84d overdue |
| 18043090 | OXIDATION CATALYST COMPRISING A PLATINUM GROUP METAL AND A BASE METAL OR METALLOID OXIDE | PATEL, SMITA S | 77d overdue |
| 18861925 | SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING PRODUCTION DATA | EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A | 60d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034730 | Harvest Management | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 58d overdue |
| 17754214 | Stable Aqueous Compositions of Fertilizer and Agriculturally Active Compound | STEINKE, SEAN JAMES | 53d overdue |
| 18010222 | Zeolite-Containing SCR Catalyst | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 49d overdue |
| 15396004 | METHOD FOR TREATING POST-EMERGENT RICE | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 4d overdue |
| 17608184 | SELECTIVE CATALYTIC REDUCTION CATALYST COMPRISING COPPER CARBONATE | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 3d overdue |
| 19258402 | METHODS FOR MAKING L-GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | 35d |
| 17662558 | HERBICIDE TOLERANT PLANTS | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 83d |
| 19372848 | METHODS FOR MAKING L-GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 17 |
| 1692 | 16 |
| 1736 | 13 |
| 1763 | 13 |
| 1765 | 12 |
| 1732 | 12 |
| 1764 | 11 |
| 1617 | 9 |
| 1662 | 8 |
| 1612 | 8 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19372848 | METHODS FOR MAKING L-GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2025 |
| 19324859 | METHODS FOR MAKING L-GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19258402 | METHODS FOR MAKING L-GLUFOSINATE | SAEED, ALI S | 1616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19134795 | WATER BLOWN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY HIGH YIELD SPRAY POLYURETHANE FOAM | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19212813 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR TUNGSTEN ETCHING INHIBITION | LAOBAK, ANDREW KEELAN | 1713 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19211438 | KNOWLEDGE INSIGHT CAPTURING SYSTEM | HOANG, HAU HAI | 2154 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19173987 | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND/OR CONTROLLING ONE OR MORE CHEMICAL PLANT(S) | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 2449 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19109379 | Method for planning a production process | CHOI, JASON JUNSOO | 2117 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19109057 | A MODULAR AGRICULTURAL TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING SAID MODULAR AGRICULTURAL TREATMENT SYSTEM | SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M | 3664 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19108464 | DISCONTINUOUSLY OPERATED DESUBLIMATOR HAVING AT LEAST ONE FLOW DISRUPTOR | JOYNER, KEVIN | 1799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19101912 | INTEGRATION OF A HEAT PUMP CIRCUIT IN A DISTILLATION PLANT FOR POLYMERISABLE SUBSTANCES | MILLER, JONATHAN | 1772 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18993836 | NEW AGROCHEMICAL FORMULATIONS | MILLER, MAKENNA RYLEIGH | 1611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19014527 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE OR ITS SALT AND AT LEAST ONE PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN-IX OXIDASE INHIBITOR | PAK, JOHN D | 1699 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18880585 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING OF TRANSITION METAL-CONTAINING FILMS | MELLOTT, JAMES M | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18880746 | SATELLITE IMAGING DATA FOR ENHANCED PRODUCTION OF PLANT PROPAGATION MATERIAL | WINDSOR, COURTNEY J | 2661 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18880615 | METHOD FOR TRACKING TRANSFER(S) OF A MATERIAL AND A PRODUCT CONTAINING SAID MATERIAL IN A DECENTRAL NETWORK | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 19007718 | Method for Determining the Carbon Footprint of a Product in Production Processes of a Production Plant | RUHL, DENNIS WILLIAM | 3626 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18879322 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DATA IN AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT OR IN A DATABASE ASSOCIATED TO THE INDUSTRIAL PLANT | JEAN, FRANTZ B | 2454 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18879319 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DATA IN AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT OR IN A DATABASE ASSOCIATED TO THE INDUSTRIAL PLANT | LEMMA, SAMSON B | 2498 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18878148 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE OR ITS SALT AND A SECOND HERBICIDE | BOATENG, AFUA BAMFOAA | 1617 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18878111 | PERSONAL CARE COMPOSITION, METHOD FOR USING SUCH COMPOSITIONS AND ITS IMPROVEMENT OF DISPERSIBILITY, STABILITY AND DEPOSITION EFFECTS | LI, WENHAN | 1614 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18876949 | HERBICIDAL COMPOSITION COMPRISING ALKYL POLYGLYCOSIDES | PRAGANI, RAJAN | 1614 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18875297 | ORAL CARE COMPOSITION COMPRISING A PEROXIDE AND AN ETHYLENE OXIDE/PROPYLENE OXIDE BLOCK COPOLYMER | HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA | 1617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18980117 | Wheat Variety PMWH111720248 | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18980168 | Wheat Variety PMWH149312414 | ZHENG, LI | 1662 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18952632 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE OR ITS SALT AND AT LEAST ONE PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN-IX OXIDASE INHIBITOR | PAK, JOHN D | 1699 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18952654 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE AND THEIR USE IN COTTON CULTURES | LOVE, TREVOR M | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18952641 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE AND THEIR USE IN CORN CULTURES | LOVE, TREVOR M | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18866782 | CO-EXTRUDED HDPE AND TPU FILMS | YI, STELLA KIM | 1742 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18866657 | LAMINATED BOARD, PALLET AND METHODS OF LAMINATING A BOARD | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 3637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18941258 | HEAT STORAGE SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR OPERATING THE HEAT STORAGE SYSTEM | BHATTACHAN, BIGYAN NMN | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18937581 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE OR ITS SALT AND A SECOND HERBICIDE | LOVE, TREVOR M | 1611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18862609 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING PROCESS DATA RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING OR PROCESSING | DOAN, TAN | 2445 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18861925 | SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING PRODUCTION DATA | EL-HAGE HASSAN, ABDALLAH A | 3623 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18860769 | AN AUGMENTED REALITY BASED AUTOMATION SYSTEM WITH TASK MANAGER | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | 2617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18854107 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF A PRODUCT | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18853737 | DUAL CURABLE PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE | DUCHENEAUX, FRANK D | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18848597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING INDUSTRIAL PLANT EQUIPMENT | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 2115 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18848457 | MATERIAL PACKAGING BY VIRTUAL SORTING | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 3626 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18848430 | METHOD FOR OPERATING PRODUCTION FEEDS | TRAN, VI N | 2117 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18847530 | AN AUGMENTED REALITY BASED AUTOMATION SYSTEM WITH A HANDS FREE SELECTION OF A VIRTUAL OBJECT | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 2117 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18846324 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A TERTIARY AMINE SURFACTANT | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18845016 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT | SMITH, STEPHEN R | 2484 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18827196 | Hybrid Seed Production Method | KOVALENKO, MYKOLA V | 1662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18840938 | MASS TRANSFER TRAY, USE THEREOF, COLUMN HAVING THE SAME, AND THERMAL SEPARATION PROCESS | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1772 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18812652 | HERBICIDAL MIXTURES COMPRISING L-GLUFOSINATE AND THEIR USE IN COTTON CULTURES | LOVE, TREVOR M | 1611 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18840308 | AMPHOTERIC ALKYLAMIDO BETAINES PRODUCED FROM MACAÚBA PALM OIL | BURKE, MATTHEW RYAN | 1619 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18840125 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COSMETIC PRODUCT | GORADIA, SHEFALI DINESH | 2676 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18839475 | PROCESS OF PRODUCING A MULTI-FILAMENT, MULTI-FILAMENT PRODUCED THEREFROM AND USE OF THE MULTI-FILAMENT | SULTANA, NAHIDA | 1743 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18838673 | A PROCESS FOR THE TREATMENT OF AT LEAST ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL GREEN BODY | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialBASF SE has 362 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 114 art units and 278 examiners.
Mykola V Kovalenko has the most, with 5 of BASF SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
