Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chemtreat Inc. has 10 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 10 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units. This high number of examiners and art units relative to the total number of actions indicates a very broad and decentralized prosecution effort.
TALBOT, BRIAN K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. With 10 pending office actions and 10 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that each examiner oversees a single pending action. This lack of examiner overlap means that the company must manage multiple separate relationships and examination styles simultaneously.
The involvement of 9 distinct art units further complicates the landscape, as it suggests the portfolio touches on nearly as many different technical specialties as there are active cases. Practitioners must coordinate across these 9 distinct art units to ensure that the prosecution of one application does not negatively impact another. The diversity of examiners requires a highly organized approach to maintain consistency in claim strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 8 (89%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1 | 59.2% | +30.9% |
| KEYWORTH, PETER | 1 | 58.5% | +23.8% |
| LEE, DOUGLAS | 1 | 45.3% | +13.7% |
| PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1 | 79.0% | +20.7% |
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.9% | +28.6% |
| UDDIN, MD I | 1 | 77.0% | +73.5% |
| DIGGS, TANISHA | 1 | 55.1% | +54.1% |
| FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1 | 45.6% | +35.4% |
| GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1 | 63.7% | +8.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING METAL SURFACES IN SURFACE PREPARATION PROCESSES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 4d overdue |
| 18584647 | ITERATIVE PROMPT TRAINER AND REPORT GENERATOR | UDDIN, MD I | 28d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917286 | METHODS OF PROTECTING FURNACE ELECTRODES WITH COOLING LIQUID THAT CONTAINS AN ADDITIVE | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 19d overdue |
| 18615007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING METAL SURFACES IN SURFACE PREPARATION PROCESSES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 4d overdue |
| 17673987 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN WATER | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 14d |
| 18584647 | ITERATIVE PROMPT TRAINER AND REPORT GENERATOR | UDDIN, MD I | 28d |
| 18776774 | ENHANCED INORGANIC COAGULANTS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT | KEYWORTH, PETER | — |
| 18671057 | METHOD OF OFFLINE CLEANING OF COOLING SYSTEMS | LEE, DOUGLAS | — |
| 18618495 | ACIDIC WASTEWATER PH NEUTRALIZATION WITH MICRONIZED CALCIUM CARBONATE | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | — |
| 18381397 | METHOD FOR INHIBITING CORROSION USING AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF ALKYL BIS AMIDE | DIGGS, TANISHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917286 | METHODS OF PROTECTING FURNACE ELECTRODES WITH COOLING LIQUID THAT CONTAINS AN ADDITIVE | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18776774 | ENHANCED INORGANIC COAGULANTS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT | KEYWORTH, PETER | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18671057 | METHOD OF OFFLINE CLEANING OF COOLING SYSTEMS | LEE, DOUGLAS | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18618495 | ACIDIC WASTEWATER PH NEUTRALIZATION WITH MICRONIZED CALCIUM CARBONATE | PRINCE JR, FREDDIE GARY | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18615007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF TREATING METAL SURFACES IN SURFACE PREPARATION PROCESSES | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18584647 | ITERATIVE PROMPT TRAINER AND REPORT GENERATOR | UDDIN, MD I | 2169 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18381397 | METHOD FOR INHIBITING CORROSION USING AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF ALKYL BIS AMIDE | DIGGS, TANISHA | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 17673987 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN WATER | FRITCHMAN, REBECCA M | 1758 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
| 17138073 | CORROSION CONTROL OF STAINLESS STEELS IN WATER SYSTEMS USING TIN CORROSION INHIBITOR WITH A HYDROXYCARBOXYLIC ACID | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Dec 30, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialChemtreat Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 9 examiners.
Brian K Talbot has the most, with 1 of Chemtreat Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
