Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Haldor Topsøe A/S manages a significant portfolio with 10 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners, meaning that every active matter is being reviewed by a different official. This complete decentralization of the workload across 10 distinct examiners ensures a wide variety of perspectives on the company's chemical innovations. The portfolio's technical reach is also broad, as it spans 6 distinct art units within the patent office. This distribution across 6 distinct art units suggests that the company's research covers multiple specialized sub-fields of chemistry and materials science. Practitioners must tailor their prosecution strategies to the specific standards of each of the 6 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, LI, JUN, is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because there are 10 distinct examiners for the 10 total pending actions, no single official has a disproportionate influence on the portfolio's progress. For practitioners, the presence of 6 distinct art units indicates that prosecution strategies must be highly adaptable. The 10 pending office actions represent a substantial and technically diverse effort to secure intellectual property. This arrangement requires managing 10 separate examiner interactions across 6 different technical divisions to resolve the 10 pending office actions. The decentralized nature of the portfolio provides the company with a broad range of independent reviews for its chemical innovations.
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 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
| PEREZ, JELITZA M | 1 | 75.2% | +29.7% |
| FORREST, MICHAEL | 1 | 59.5% | +13.8% |
| BAHTA, MEDHANIT W | 1 | 80.6% | +28.2% |
| KUYKENDALL, ALYSSA LEE | 1 | 20.8% | +95.0% |
| LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1 | 61.9% | +12.5% |
| AKRAM, IMRAN | 1 | 64.7% | +43.0% |
| PARENT, ALEXANDER RENE | 1 | 55.6% | +15.6% |
| WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1 | 86.2% | -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 |
| 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 | — | §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 |
| 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 |
| 17421449 | PARALLEL REFORMING IN CHEMICAL PLANT | LEUNG, JENNIFER A | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | 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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