Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Casale S.A. has 12 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The record spans 11 examiners and 5 art units, showing that prosecution is distributed across multiple examination settings rather than concentrated in one venue.
SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment is the largest individual examiner allocation in the profile, but it represents only part of the broader portfolio activity. Counsel should use matter-level tracking to distinguish examiner-specific issues from recurring technology or claim-scope issues.
The spread across 5 art units also supports separate review of examiner correspondence, amendment history, and outstanding objections for each technical grouping. A centralized docketing process can preserve consistency while allowing responses to reflect the practices of the assigned examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 2 | 77.8% | -2.5% |
| SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 73.5% | +19.6% |
| COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1 | 79.0% | +15.3% |
| LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1 | 77.7% | +23.2% |
| YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1 | 83.0% | +9.1% |
| CARR, DEBORAH D | 1 | 81.8% | +2.9% |
| SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1 | 68.4% | -8.2% |
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1 | 66.3% | +33.1% |
| IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 1 | 80.0% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18274785 | CATALYTIC SYNTHESIS REACTOR | YOUNG, NATASHA E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16887191 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A SYNTHESIS GAS | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 124d overdue |
| 18260807 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR METHANOL PRODUCTION | CARR, DEBORAH D | 10d overdue |
| 18690027 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AMMONIA PLANT | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| 18420085 | REFORMING PROCESS INTEGRATED WITH GAS TURBINE GENERATOR | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | — |
| 18291324 | INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF AMMONIA AND NITRIC ACID | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | — |
| 18563711 | AMMONIA MIXING SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16887191 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A SYNTHESIS GAS | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 124d overdue |
| 17770148 | CONTROL OF AN AMMONIA SYNTHESIS LOOP AT PARTIAL LOAD | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 66d overdue |
| 18690027 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AMMONIA PLANT | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| 18563711 | AMMONIA MIXING SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | COOLEY, CHARLES E | — |
| 18550493 | PROCESS FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS USING GREEN HYDROGEN | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 5 |
| 1691 | 2 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690027 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AMMONIA PLANT | SHERMAN, ERIC SCOTT | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18420085 | REFORMING PROCESS INTEGRATED WITH GAS TURBINE GENERATOR | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18291324 | INTEGRATED PROCESS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF AMMONIA AND NITRIC ACID | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18563711 | AMMONIA MIXING SYSTEM AND USE THEREOF | COOLEY, CHARLES E | 1736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18550493 | PROCESS FOR AMMONIA SYNTHESIS USING GREEN HYDROGEN | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1738 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18274785 | CATALYTIC SYNTHESIS REACTOR | YOUNG, NATASHA E | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18260807 | PROCESS AND PLANT FOR METHANOL PRODUCTION | CARR, DEBORAH D | 1691 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 17995011 | REVAMPING OF AMMONIA-UREA PLANTS | SAWYER, JENNIFER C | 1691 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17770148 | CONTROL OF AN AMMONIA SYNTHESIS LOOP AT PARTIAL LOAD | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2022 |
| 16887191 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A SYNTHESIS GAS | IQBAL, SYED TAHA | 1736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 124d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialCasale S.A. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Joshua Maxwell Speer has the most, with 2 of Casale S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
