Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carbon Technology Holdings LLC has 8 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating varied examination treatment across the portfolio.
PILCHER, JONATHAN L is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Prosecution management should combine coordinated chemistry and materials strategy with separate analysis of each examiner’s requirements.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (62%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 2 | 64.3% | +43.8% |
| LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1 | 83.7% | +9.2% |
| HERNANDEZ, RITCHIE EVAN | 1 | — | — |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 64.2% | +7.5% |
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +13.7% |
| TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1 | 63.2% | +36.9% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913819 | CARBON-NEGATIVE METALLURGICAL PRODUCTS | LIANG, ANTHONY M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17485356 | BIO-REDUCTION OF METAL ORES INTEGRATED WITH BIOMASS PYROLYSIS | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 5d overdue |
| 17530778 | BIOMASS PYROLYSIS INTEGRATED WITH BIO-REDUCTION OF METAL ORES, HYDROGEN PRODUCTION, AND/OR ACTIVATED-CARBON PRODUCTION | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 33d |
| 18392465 | PROCESS AND SYSTEMS FOR CARBON-NEGATIVE AND WATER-POSITIVE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | HERNANDEZ, RITCHIE EVAN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17982676 | BIOCARBON COMPOSITIONS WITH OPTIMIZED COMPOSITIONAL PARAMETERS, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | FORREST, MICHAEL | 9d overdue |
| 17530778 | BIOMASS PYROLYSIS INTEGRATED WITH BIO-REDUCTION OF METAL ORES, HYDROGEN PRODUCTION, AND/OR ACTIVATED-CARBON PRODUCTION | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 33d |
| 17879033 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR RECAPTURING CARBON FROM BIOMASS PYROLYSIS LIQUIDS | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | — |
| 17580035 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING BIOCARBON PELLETS WITH ADJUSTABLE GRINDABILITY INDEX | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1772 | 2 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18913819 | CARBON-NEGATIVE METALLURGICAL PRODUCTS | LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1734 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18392465 | PROCESS AND SYSTEMS FOR CARBON-NEGATIVE AND WATER-POSITIVE HYDROGEN PRODUCTION | HERNANDEZ, RITCHIE EVAN | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18544336 | HIGH-CARBON BIOGENIC REAGENTS AND USES THEREOF | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 17982676 | BIOCARBON COMPOSITIONS WITH OPTIMIZED COMPOSITIONAL PARAMETERS, AND PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
| 17879033 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR RECAPTURING CARBON FROM BIOMASS PYROLYSIS LIQUIDS | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1772 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2022 |
| 17580035 | PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING BIOCARBON PELLETS WITH ADJUSTABLE GRINDABILITY INDEX | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17530778 | BIOMASS PYROLYSIS INTEGRATED WITH BIO-REDUCTION OF METAL ORES, HYDROGEN PRODUCTION, AND/OR ACTIVATED-CARBON PRODUCTION | TAYLOR, JORDAN W | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 19, 2021 |
| 17485356 | BIO-REDUCTION OF METAL ORES INTEGRATED WITH BIOMASS PYROLYSIS | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialCarbon Technology Holdings LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Jonathan L Pilcher has the most, with 2 of Carbon Technology Holdings LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
