Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gti Energy has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions involve 4 examiners and 4 art units, indicating a separate examiner and art-unit assignment for each pending matter.
HARP, WILLIAM RAY is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution planning should therefore emphasize record-by-record review and consistent treatment of chemistry and materials issues across the separate assignments.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.2% | +13.2% |
| BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| PARSA, JAFAR F | 1 | 87.3% | +8.9% |
| CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1 | 59.2% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200026 | PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS FROM CARBON DIOXIDE, IN COMBINATION WITH HYDROGEN OR A HYDROGEN SOURCE | PARSA, JAFAR F | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107628 | INTEGRATED PARTIAL OXIDATION AND ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 6d |
| 18224397 | ACTIVATION OF CATALYST SYSTEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) HYDROCARBONS FROM SYNTHESIS GAS | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 28d |
| 19097319 | COLD WALL LOCKHOPPER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18581867 | Syngas Yield Enhancement In Converting Carbonaceous Feeds By Gasification And Other Oxidative Methods | MERKLING, MATTHEW 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107628 | INTEGRATED PARTIAL OXIDATION AND ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 6d |
| 19097319 | COLD WALL LOCKHOPPER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| 18581867 | Syngas Yield Enhancement In Converting Carbonaceous Feeds By Gasification And Other Oxidative Methods | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1692 | 2 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097319 | COLD WALL LOCKHOPPER | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18581867 | Syngas Yield Enhancement In Converting Carbonaceous Feeds By Gasification And Other Oxidative Methods | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18224397 | ACTIVATION OF CATALYST SYSTEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) HYDROCARBONS FROM SYNTHESIS GAS | BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS | 1692 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18200026 | PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS FROM CARBON DIOXIDE, IN COMBINATION WITH HYDROGEN OR A HYDROGEN SOURCE | PARSA, JAFAR F | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18107628 | INTEGRATED PARTIAL OXIDATION AND ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS | CHUNG, HOSUNG CHARLES | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGti Energy has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
William Ray Harp has the most, with 1 of Gti Energy's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
