Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters span 5 examiners and 4 art units, so the portfolio is distributed across nearly as many examination assignments as pending actions. Counsel may need to coordinate responses across several examination contexts rather than rely on a single prosecution approach.
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for a larger concentration in the current data, which points to a broadly distributed workload and limits the value of an examiner-specific portfolio strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| LING, DORIS | 1 | 25.0% | +27.3% |
| KAUCHER, MARK S | 1 | 72.5% | +14.0% |
| LEE, RIP A | 1 | 83.5% | -4.0% |
| HOU, FRANK S | 1 | 67.8% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291068 | HIGHLY ACTIVE DRY REFORMING CATALYST, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18530684 | Flame-Retardant Modified-Poly (phenylene oxide) Resin Composition With Excellent Deformation Resistance And Mechanical Properties And Article Molded Therefrom | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18516424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE COPOLYMER USING CATALYST SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY | KAUCHER, MARK S | — |
| 18382768 | Solid Catalyst For Producing Polypropylene And Method For Preparation Of Propylene-Derived Polymer | LEE, RIP A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18344614 | NOVEL TRANSITION METAL COMPOUND, TRANSITION METAL CATALYST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COPOLYMER OF ETHYLENE AND a-OLEFIN USING THE SAME | HOU, FRANK S | 5d |
| 18291068 | HIGHLY ACTIVE DRY REFORMING CATALYST, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 18530684 | Flame-Retardant Modified-Poly (phenylene oxide) Resin Composition With Excellent Deformation Resistance And Mechanical Properties And Article Molded Therefrom | LING, DORIS | — |
| 18516424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE COPOLYMER USING CATALYST SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY | KAUCHER, MARK S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18291068 | HIGHLY ACTIVE DRY REFORMING CATALYST, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18530684 | Flame-Retardant Modified-Poly (phenylene oxide) Resin Composition With Excellent Deformation Resistance And Mechanical Properties And Article Molded Therefrom | LING, DORIS | 1764 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18516424 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PROPYLENE COPOLYMER USING CATALYST SYSTEM HAVING IMPROVED COPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY | KAUCHER, MARK S | 1764 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18382768 | Solid Catalyst For Producing Polypropylene And Method For Preparation Of Propylene-Derived Polymer | LEE, RIP A | 1762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
| 18344614 | NOVEL TRANSITION METAL COMPOUND, TRANSITION METAL CATALYST COMPOSITION CONTAINING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COPOLYMER OF ETHYLENE AND a-OLEFIN USING THE SAME | HOU, FRANK S | 1692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Zachary John Baum has the most, with 1 of Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
