Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Electrochaea GmbH holds a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active. These actions are distributed among a matching number of distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated by multiple technical divisions, requiring a multi-faceted approach to prosecution.
KEELING, ALEXANDER W is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total pending office actions currently active for the company. Because the workload is split between the examiners, no single individual dominates the current prosecution landscape.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's research spans different specialized classifications within the Chemistry & Materials field. With multiple examiners involved, the company must manage separate sets of examiner preferences and interpretations. This requires the company to tailor its legal arguments to different individual perspectives while maintaining consistency across the portfolio. Resolving the issues raised by KEELING, ALEXANDER W is a key step.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 56.0% | +37.9% |
| BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1 | 23.8% | +56.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904119 | BIOCATALYST ADAPTATION AS LOAD FOLLOWING SOLUTION | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904119 | BIOCATALYST ADAPTATION AS LOAD FOLLOWING SOLUTION | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 29d |
| 18282443 | MEC SYSTEM | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18282443 | MEC SYSTEM | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 17904119 | BIOCATALYST ADAPTATION AS LOAD FOLLOWING SOLUTION | BREEN, KIMBERLY CATHERINE | 1657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialElectrochaea GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Alexander W Keeling has the most, with 1 of Electrochaea GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
