Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hach Lange GmbH currently manages 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage 7 unique examiner relationships simultaneously, which can lead to varied prosecution outcomes across the portfolio.
The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, which is fewer than the 7 pending office actions. This ratio suggests that while the examiners are all different, some of the matters share technical classifications within the patent office. The busiest examiner is PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
With 7 distinct examiners involved, there is no concentration of workload under any single individual, as the busiest examiner only handles 1 pending action. This represents a small fraction of the total 7 pending office actions. Practitioners should expect a variety of examination approaches across the 4 distinct art units involved in these filings, as no single unit or examiner dominates the current pending queue.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 1 | 82.2% | +24.1% |
| FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1 | 48.1% | +16.0% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
| TRAN, JUDY DAO | 1 | 80.0% | +16.5% |
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 1 | 78.5% | +6.5% |
| MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1 | 77.8% | +49.3% |
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 67.6% | +52.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292709 | CUVETTE FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, SYSTEM FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 22d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18845649 | PHOTOMETRIC PROCESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 43d |
| 18708963 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SAMPLE FILTER CLOGGING CONDITION VALUE | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18699039 | ANALYSIS PREPARATION CUVETTE RACK UNIT | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| 18258999 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE PLAUSIBILITY OF SENSOR INFORMATION IN A PLANT PROCESS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18292709 | CUVETTE FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, SYSTEM FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 22d overdue |
| 18845649 | PHOTOMETRIC PROCESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 43d |
| 18708963 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SAMPLE FILTER CLOGGING CONDITION VALUE | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| 18699039 | ANALYSIS PREPARATION CUVETTE RACK UNIT | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| 18258999 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE PLAUSIBILITY OF SENSOR INFORMATION IN A PLANT PROCESS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | — |
| 18250847 | A PROCESS PHOTOMETER ARRANGEMENT | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 3 |
| 2877 | 2 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2884 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18845649 | PHOTOMETRIC PROCESS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS | PEREZ-GUZMAN, CARLOS GABRIEL | 2877 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18708963 | A METHOD FOR DETERMINING A SAMPLE FILTER CLOGGING CONDITION VALUE | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1773 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18699039 | ANALYSIS PREPARATION CUVETTE RACK UNIT | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18292709 | CUVETTE FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF A SAMPLE, SYSTEM FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE AND METHOD FOR A PHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE | TRAN, JUDY DAO | 2877 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18258992 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH PROCESS PHOTOMETER | FAYE, MAMADOU | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18258999 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE PLAUSIBILITY OF SENSOR INFORMATION IN A PLANT PROCESS | MCGUIRK, JOHN SCHUYLER | 1798 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18250847 | A PROCESS PHOTOMETER ARRANGEMENT | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHach Lange GmbH has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Carlos Gabriel Perez-Guzman has the most, with 1 of Hach Lange GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
