Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eppendorf SE has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the examination workforce while retaining some art-unit concentration.
LAU, TUNG S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the pending matters span multiple examiners and art units, prosecution planning should preserve a common portfolio position without assuming that one response approach will fit every application.
The distribution also supports examiner-specific review of claim construction, cited technology, and amendment practice. The art-unit pattern may help identify recurring technical themes, while the examiner assignments remain important for response timing and argument selection.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAU, TUNG S | 1 | 83.0% | +14.5% |
| WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1 | 58.0% | +48.4% |
| COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 1 | 21.5% | +28.1% |
| HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1 | 50.8% | +31.1% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.3% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 67.6% | +52.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18261961 | HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18557017 | SYSTEM INCLUDING HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | — |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | — |
| 18261961 | HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | — |
| 18557017 | SYSTEM INCLUDING HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | — |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | — |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | — |
| 17046230 | LABORATORY TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICES | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| 3686 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18702228 | PIPETTE CALIBRATION MANAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD | LAU, TUNG S | 2857 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18261961 | HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | WHITE, DENNIS MICHAEL | 1758 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18557017 | SYSTEM INCLUDING HAND-HELD PIPETTING DEVICE | COVINGTON, AMANDA R | 3686 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18262150 | INCUBATOR AND METHOD | HASSAN, LIBAN M | 1799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18245251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING LABWARE | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §101§102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 17046230 | LABORATORY TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICES | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialEppendorf SE has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Tung S Lau has the most, with 1 of Eppendorf SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
