Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
H C Starck Tungsten GmbH focuses on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions currently active. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
YANG, JIE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. Since each of the 2 distinct examiners handles exactly 1 of the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed. This means no single examiner has a dominant influence over the active matters.
The use of 2 distinct art units indicates that the pending subject matter is spread across different technical groups. Practitioners should look for unique examiner preferences in each case. The prosecution strategy requires managing 2 separate examiner relationships across the 2 units. This decentralized structure for 2 pending office actions prevents a single point of failure in the prosecution process. Each of the 2 distinct examiners provides a unique perspective on the company's filings within the 2 distinct art units, including YANG, JIE.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1 | 66.7% | +34.5% |
| YANG, JIE | 1 | 62.5% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570213 | Process for Recycling Battery Materials By Way of Hydrometallurgical Treatment | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570213 | Process for Recycling Battery Materials By Way of Hydrometallurgical Treatment | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | — |
| 18570233 | Process for Recycling Battery Materials By Way of Reductive, Pyrometallurgical Treatment | YANG, JIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570213 | Process for Recycling Battery Materials By Way of Hydrometallurgical Treatment | GARCIA, BETHANY CLAIRE | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18570233 | Process for Recycling Battery Materials By Way of Reductive, Pyrometallurgical Treatment | YANG, JIE | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialH C Starck Tungsten GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Bethany Claire Garcia has the most, with 1 of H C Starck Tungsten GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
