Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Carmeuse Technologies SA holds a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 3 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that while the portfolio is focused, it has enough volume to involve multiple examiners within the patent office.
The busiest examiner, BERNS, DANIEL J, is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This accounts for a majority of the 3 pending office actions currently active for the company. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution strategy must balance the workload, though BERNS, DANIEL J remains the primary point of contact for the bulk of the pending matters.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's Chemistry & Materials applications cover more than one technical sub-specialty. Practitioners should note that the 3 pending office actions are not centralized under a single examiner, although the 2 pending office actions managed by BERNS, DANIEL J represent the most significant portion of the current workload. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners requires a coordinated approach to prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERNS, DANIEL J | 2 | 73.0% | +33.7% |
| MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18560364 | DECARBONATION PROCESS OF CARBONATED MATERIALS IN A MULTI-SHAFT VERTICAL KILN | BERNS, DANIEL J | — |
| 18560357 | DECARBONATION PROCESS OF CARBONATED MATERIALS IN A MULTI-SHAFT VERTICAL KILN | BERNS, DANIEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 2 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18560364 | DECARBONATION PROCESS OF CARBONATED MATERIALS IN A MULTI-SHAFT VERTICAL KILN | BERNS, DANIEL J | 1736 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18560357 | DECARBONATION PROCESS OF CARBONATED MATERIALS IN A MULTI-SHAFT VERTICAL KILN | BERNS, DANIEL J | 1736 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18560332 | DECARBONATION PROCESS OF CARBONATED MATERIALS IN A MULTI-SHAFT VERTICAL KILN | MOUDOU, EILEEN QI-YUN | 1738 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCarmeuse Technologies SA has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Daniel J Berns has the most, with 2 of Carmeuse Technologies SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
