Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bühler Alzenau GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit.
HUANG, WEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the shared art-unit context to check for consistent technical positions, while addressing each examiner’s specific objections separately.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, WEN | 1 | 82.0% | +22.7% |
| BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH | 1 | 48.3% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105068 | MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH ANTI-REFLECTIVE COATING | HUANG, WEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105068 | MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH ANTI-REFLECTIVE COATING | HUANG, WEN | — |
| 18548030 | COATER CONDITIONING MODE | BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105068 | MEDICAL DEVICE COMPRISING AN OPTICAL ELEMENT WITH ANTI-REFLECTIVE COATING | HUANG, WEN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 18548030 | COATER CONDITIONING MODE | BRAYTON, JOHN JOSEPH | 1794 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBühler Alzenau GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Wen Huang has the most, with 1 of Bühler Alzenau GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
