Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Haldor Topsøe A/S is currently navigating 9 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 9 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is under the review of a different individual. This ratio between actions and examiners indicates a diverse range of perspectives being applied to the company's intellectual property.
The prosecution effort is organized across 6 distinct art units, showing technical breadth within the chemistry sector. WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 9 pending office actions are distributed across the examiners, preventing any single individual from becoming a primary bottleneck. For the practitioner, this decentralized structure requires managing several separate examiner relationships simultaneously. The variety across 6 distinct art units further suggests that the portfolio covers an array of chemical processes or materials, each subject to different departmental standards.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.3% | +18.8% |
| PEREZ, JELITZA M | 1 | 75.1% | +28.9% |
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.6% | +13.7% |
| BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1 | 80.6% | +27.8% |
| LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.8% | +12.2% |
| KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1 | 18.5% | +75.5% |
| AKRAM, IMRAN | 1 | 64.6% | +43.1% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 56.3% | +15.0% |
| WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1 | 86.3% | -20.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17616899 | Biogas upgrading to methanol | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 103d overdue |
| 16743239 | THERMOLYTIC FRAGMENTATION OF SUGARS | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17421414 | Chemical plant with a reforming section and a process for producing a chemical product | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 107d overdue |
| 17058970 | EXPANDER FOR SOEC APPLICATIONS | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 70d |
| 18245730 | CONVERSION OF CO2 AND H2 TO SYNFUELS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17421414 | Chemical plant with a reforming section and a process for producing a chemical product | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 107d overdue |
| 17616899 | Biogas upgrading to methanol | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 103d overdue |
| 18006184 | OFF-GAS UTILIZATION IN ELECTRICALLY HEATED REFORMING PLANT | FORREST, MICHAEL | 32d overdue |
| 17274654 | CARBON RECYCLING IN STEAM REFORMING PROCESS | AKRAM, IMRAN | 12d |
| 17058970 | EXPANDER FOR SOEC APPLICATIONS | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 70d |
| 18761285 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS GAS PRODUCTION | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| 18245730 | CONVERSION OF CO2 AND H2 TO SYNFUELS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | — |
| 17421449 | PARALLEL REFORMING IN CHEMICAL PLANT | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1774 | 3 |
| 1692 | 2 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| 1795 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18761285 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIS GAS PRODUCTION | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18245730 | CONVERSION OF CO2 AND H2 TO SYNFUELS | PEREZ, JELITZA M | 1774 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
| 18006184 | OFF-GAS UTILIZATION IN ELECTRICALLY HEATED REFORMING PLANT | FORREST, MICHAEL | 1738 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
| 17616899 | Biogas upgrading to methanol | BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 103d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2021 |
| 17421449 | PARALLEL REFORMING IN CHEMICAL PLANT | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2021 |
| 17421414 | Chemical plant with a reforming section and a process for producing a chemical product | KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2021 |
| 17274654 | CARBON RECYCLING IN STEAM REFORMING PROCESS | AKRAM, IMRAN | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 09, 2021 |
| 17058970 | EXPANDER FOR SOEC APPLICATIONS | PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1795 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Nov 25, 2020 |
| 16743239 | THERMOLYTIC FRAGMENTATION OF SUGARS | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1692 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHaldor Topsøe A/S has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 9 examiners.
Paul A Wartalowicz has the most, with 1 of Haldor Topsøe A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
