Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hach Company

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

6
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALLENHORST, MAUREEN 1 79.0% +5.3%
COOLEY, CHARLES E 1 79.1% +14.9%
ALABI, OYELEYE A 1 85.3% +22.4%
IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1 12.1% +80.0%
GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F 1 67.8% +17.9%
KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1 46.8% +33.9%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18151161 POTASSIUM MALEATE BUFFER FOR FREE CHLORINE ANALYSIS ALABI, OYELEYE A 6d

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18083656 METHODS AND KITS FOR ASSAYING A LARGE FLUID VOLUME USING FLOW CYTOMETRY IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 4d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18083656 METHODS AND KITS FOR ASSAYING A LARGE FLUID VOLUME USING FLOW CYTOMETRY IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 4d overdue
18151161 POTASSIUM MALEATE BUFFER FOR FREE CHLORINE ANALYSIS ALABI, OYELEYE A 6d
16931943 SP3 SUBSTITUTED CARBON ELECTRODE ANALYSIS KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 15d
18078146 SILANE-FLUOROPHORE COMPLEX INDICATOR FLUORIDE MEASUREMENT WITH ETHANOL GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F 30d
18199609 ASYMMETRICAL MAGNETIC STIR BAR COOLEY, CHARLES E 57d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1797 2
1774 1
1653 1
1767 1
1795 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18342216 MITIGATION OF FREE CHLORINE INTERFERENCE FOR OZONE DETECTION USING AN INDIGO-BASED INDICATOR WALLENHORST, MAUREEN 1797 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18199609 ASYMMETRICAL MAGNETIC STIR BAR COOLEY, CHARLES E 1774 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending May 19, 2023
18151161 POTASSIUM MALEATE BUFFER FOR FREE CHLORINE ANALYSIS ALABI, OYELEYE A 1797 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Jan 06, 2023
18083656 METHODS AND KITS FOR ASSAYING A LARGE FLUID VOLUME USING FLOW CYTOMETRY IANNUZO, NATALIE NMN 1653 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2022
18078146 SILANE-FLUOROPHORE COMPLEX INDICATOR FLUORIDE MEASUREMENT WITH ETHANOL GODENSCHWAGER, PETER F 1767 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Dec 09, 2022
16931943 SP3 SUBSTITUTED CARBON ELECTRODE ANALYSIS KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1795 §112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 17, 2020

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