Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Evoqua Water Technologies LLC has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. These matters involve 6 examiners and 3 art units, indicating a portfolio distributed across several examination settings.
NORRIS, CLAIRE A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That allocation is higher than the individual allocation reflected for the other examiners, but it remains one part of a multi-examiner record.
The presence of 3 art units makes technical grouping important for prosecution management. Counsel should separate art-unit-specific patterns from issues that recur across the water technology portfolio, while aligning arguments and amendments where the claim subject matter supports a common approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 6 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 2 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
| ALI, WAQAAS A | 1 | 81.1% | +17.8% |
| VARMA, AKASH K | 1 | 66.6% | +34.1% |
| BASS, DIRK R | 1 | 62.4% | +22.6% |
| PEO, JONATHAN M | 1 | 48.4% | +47.6% |
| CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1 | 54.3% | +33.6% |
| PERRIN, CLARE M | 1 | 68.3% | +42.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689667 | PFAS DESTRUCTION USING PLASMA AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE CREATED BY SMALL GAS BUBBLES | ALI, WAQAAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026119 | IN CHANNEL MAGNETIC RECOVERY | PERRIN, CLARE M | 9d |
| 18026821 | STORM FLOW OPERATION AND SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION OPERATION IN A SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18026119 | IN CHANNEL MAGNETIC RECOVERY | PERRIN, CLARE M | 9d |
| 17967838 | Sequencing Batch Reactor Systems and Methods | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 28d |
| 18562416 | Regulation of Onsite Peroxide Generation for Improved Peroxone Advanced Oxidative Process Control | VARMA, AKASH K | 29d |
| 18689667 | PFAS DESTRUCTION USING PLASMA AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE CREATED BY SMALL GAS BUBBLES | ALI, WAQAAS A | — |
| 18560118 | ENHANCING WATER TREATMENT RECOVERY FROM RETENTION POND AT FERTILIZER PLANTS | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18377823 | Half-cell electrochemical configurations for self-cleaning electrochlorination devices | PEO, JONATHAN M | — |
| 18037077 | Electrodeionization Configuration for Enhanced Boron Removal | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — |
| 18026821 | STORM FLOW OPERATION AND SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION OPERATION IN A SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 5 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689667 | PFAS DESTRUCTION USING PLASMA AT THE AIR-WATER INTERFACE CREATED BY SMALL GAS BUBBLES | ALI, WAQAAS A | 1777 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18562416 | Regulation of Onsite Peroxide Generation for Improved Peroxone Advanced Oxidative Process Control | VARMA, AKASH K | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18560118 | ENHANCING WATER TREATMENT RECOVERY FROM RETENTION POND AT FERTILIZER PLANTS | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18377823 | Half-cell electrochemical configurations for self-cleaning electrochlorination devices | PEO, JONATHAN M | 1779 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2023 |
| 18037077 | Electrodeionization Configuration for Enhanced Boron Removal | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1794 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18026821 | STORM FLOW OPERATION AND SIMULTANEOUS NITRIFICATION DENITRIFICATION OPERATION IN A SEQUENCING BATCH REACTOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18026119 | IN CHANNEL MAGNETIC RECOVERY | PERRIN, CLARE M | 1779 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
| 17967838 | Sequencing Batch Reactor Systems and Methods | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEvoqua Water Technologies LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Claire A Norris has the most, with 2 of Evoqua Water Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
