Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crane Inc. has four pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among four examiners and four art units, showing that the active portfolio spans multiple examination channels. HEINCER, LIAM J is the busiest examiner, with one pending matter, and the profile does not identify a concentrated examiner relationship.
The distributed structure requires disciplined matter-level management. Counsel should track separate examiner positions, art-unit expectations, and response deadlines while coordinating technical themes only where the cases genuinely overlap. The available data supports a broad but individualized prosecution plan rather than a single response model for the chemistry and materials portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1 | 73.5% | +32.6% |
| HEINCER, LIAM J | 1 | 55.8% | +26.0% |
| DESAI, ANAND U | 1 | 78.2% | +13.0% |
| BLAND, ALICIA | 1 | 50.8% | +12.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294005 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17911296 | Synthetic Polymer and Method for Producing Same, Molding Material, and Molded Body | BLAND, ALICIA | 6d |
| 18482262 | Highly Contracted Synthetic Fibroin Fiber, Production Method Therefor, and Method for Contracting Synthetic Fibroin Fiber | DESAI, ANAND U | 14d |
| 18294011 | Porous Body and Method for Producing Same | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | — |
| 18294005 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HEINCER, LIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1655 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18294011 | Porous Body and Method for Producing Same | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18294005 | ARTIFICIAL LEATHER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | HEINCER, LIAM J | 1767 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18482262 | Highly Contracted Synthetic Fibroin Fiber, Production Method Therefor, and Method for Contracting Synthetic Fibroin Fiber | DESAI, ANAND U | 1655 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 17911296 | Synthetic Polymer and Method for Producing Same, Molding Material, and Molded Body | BLAND, ALICIA | 1759 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Sep 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialCrane Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Kumar R Bhushan has the most, with 1 of Crane Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
