Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carl Freudenberg KG has 18 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 18 distinct examiners across 13 distinct art units. Examiner assignments are fully dispersed, while the art-unit count shows that multiple matters are placed within some shared technical examination settings.
REID JR, CHARLES H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use art-unit groupings to identify common chemistry or materials issues, but the response strategy remains examiner-specific.
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 | 9 (53%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID JR, CHARLES H | 1 | 69.4% | +23.9% |
| GOOD, KENNETH W | 1 | 73.7% | +18.7% |
| MAYY, MOHAMMAD | 1 | 48.5% | +23.2% |
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.6% | +7.7% |
| HINDMAN, FREDERICK ARTHUR | 1 | — | — |
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.6% |
| DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1 | 65.9% | +27.6% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.0% | +20.1% |
| SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 1 | 53.4% | +25.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102433 | SHAFT GROUNDING ASSEMBLY | REID JR, CHARLES H | — |
| 18997848 | RADAR SYSTEM | GOOD, KENNETH W | — |
| 18912631 | FILTER AND FILTER ARRANGEMENT | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
| 18806752 | FILTER HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL SEALING ELEMENT | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | — |
| 18796482 | FILTER FOR A SPRAY-COATING SYSTEM AND FILTER ASSEMBLY | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| 18625245 | SUSTAINABLE SOUND-ABSORBING NONWOVEN FABRIC | SALVATORE, LYNDA | — |
| 18179401 | SUSTAINABLE NONWOVEN LAMINATE FOR STRUCTURAL PART APPLICATIONS | CHOI, PETER Y | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18727450 | MOPPING DEVICE | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 5d |
| 18873746 | GAS DIFFUSION LAYER MADE OF WATER JET ENTANGLED NONWOVENS | MAYY, MOHAMMAD | 20d |
| 19102433 | SHAFT GROUNDING ASSEMBLY | REID JR, CHARLES H | — |
| 18997848 | RADAR SYSTEM | GOOD, KENNETH W | — |
| 18866607 | WOUND DRESSING | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | — |
| 18806752 | FILTER HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL SEALING ELEMENT | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | — |
| 18796482 | FILTER FOR A SPRAY-COATING SYSTEM AND FILTER ASSEMBLY | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 4 |
| 3723 | 3 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102433 | SHAFT GROUNDING ASSEMBLY | REID JR, CHARLES H | 2834 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18997848 | RADAR SYSTEM | GOOD, KENNETH W | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18873746 | GAS DIFFUSION LAYER MADE OF WATER JET ENTANGLED NONWOVENS | MAYY, MOHAMMAD | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18866607 | WOUND DRESSING | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18924708 | CLEANING AND DISINFECTING MOP ROLL REFILL | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18919115 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS | HINDMAN, FREDERICK ARTHUR | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18912631 | FILTER AND FILTER ARRANGEMENT | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18806752 | FILTER HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL SEALING ELEMENT | DIETERLE, JENNIFER M | 1776 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18796482 | FILTER FOR A SPRAY-COATING SYSTEM AND FILTER ASSEMBLY | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18727450 | MOPPING DEVICE | SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18645428 | NONWOVEN LAMINATE | DILLON, DANIEL P | 1783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18625245 | SUSTAINABLE SOUND-ABSORBING NONWOVEN FABRIC | SALVATORE, LYNDA | 1789 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18438531 | FILTER ELEMENT WITH AN ANTI-MICROBIAL FINISH AND A FINE FILTER LAYER | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18250363 | MACHINE TOOL FOR THE SHAPING PRODUCTION OF AN ARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ARTICLE | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3722 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18179401 | SUSTAINABLE NONWOVEN LAMINATE FOR STRUCTURAL PART APPLICATIONS | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2023 |
| 18062974 | CLEANING ARTICLE | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17634566 | ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM | YOON, KEVIN E | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCarl Freudenberg KG has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 17 examiners.
Charles H Reid Jr. has the most, with 1 of Carl Freudenberg KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
