Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bl Technologies Inc. currently has 11 pending office actions, representing a robust period of active prosecution. These actions are spread across 10 distinct examiners, which indicates that the portfolio is receiving attention from a wide array of individual perspectives at the patent office. The technical scope of these applications is distributed among 9 distinct art units, all situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is NORRIS, CLAIRE A, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. The remaining 9 pending actions are divided among the other 9 distinct examiners, showing a very low concentration of matters per person. This distribution across 9 distinct art units highlights the complexity and variety of the chemical and material technologies being pursued. Practitioners managing this portfolio must navigate the specific procedural nuances of 10 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units to successfully advance these 11 pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (36%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 2 (18%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 2 | 65.8% | +28.0% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.2% | +21.7% |
| CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | 1 | 54.6% | +62.5% |
| FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1 | 47.9% | +16.1% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.4% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.9% | +13.6% |
| NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1 | 64.9% | +28.4% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
| SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1 | 86.2% | +15.8% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 68.3% | +52.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547660 | BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 2d overdue |
| 17791159 | ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 13d |
| 18572638 | NANOFILTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18553824 | FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SOLUBLE AND INSOLUBLE TRANSITION METALS FROM WATER | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547660 | BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 2d overdue |
| 17791159 | ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 13d |
| 18508983 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH PRIMARY TREATMENT AND MBR OR MABR-IFAS REACTOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 21d |
| 18548013 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR INHIBITING THE FORMATION AND GROWITH OF POPCORN POLYMERS | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 27d |
| 18552116 | HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 79d |
| 18957385 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED DESALTER BRINE QUALITY | HINES, LATOSHA D | — |
| 18733490 | PRETREATMENT TO REMOVE AMMONIA FROM HIGH STRENGTH WASTEWATER WITH MEMRBANE AERATED BIOFILM SIDESTREAM | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18698893 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING MELANOIDIN FORMATION IN A YEAST PROPAGATION PROCESS | CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 3 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18957385 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED DESALTER BRINE QUALITY | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18733490 | PRETREATMENT TO REMOVE AMMONIA FROM HIGH STRENGTH WASTEWATER WITH MEMRBANE AERATED BIOFILM SIDESTREAM | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18698893 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING MELANOIDIN FORMATION IN A YEAST PROPAGATION PROCESS | CURRENS, GRANT CARSON | 1645 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18572638 | NANOFILTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18508983 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH PRIMARY TREATMENT AND MBR OR MABR-IFAS REACTOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18553824 | FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SOLUBLE AND INSOLUBLE TRANSITION METALS FROM WATER | KAHN, RACHEL | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
| 18552116 | HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1779 | §112 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18548013 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR INHIBITING THE FORMATION AND GROWITH OF POPCORN POLYMERS | NGUYEN, HAIDUNG D | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18547660 | BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 17791159 | ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jul 06, 2022 |
| 17638895 | TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON AND CONDUCTIVITY VERIFICATION AND CALIBRATION USING A SINGLE SAMPLE | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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