Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hatch Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the prosecution workload spans separate examination contexts.
FIORITO, JAMES A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger examiner concentration favors matter-level tracking and separate analysis of claim scope, prior art, and amendment options.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORITO, JAMES A | 1 | 71.6% | +28.0% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1 | 66.3% | +33.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17979350 | METAL-DISSOLVING APPARATUS, PROCESSES AND USES THEREOF | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 15d |
| 18554341 | HYDROMETALLURGICAL TREATMENT OF ORES OR CONCENTRATES FOR REMOVAL OF PREG-ROBBING ORGANIC CARBON MATERIAL | FIORITO, JAMES 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554341 | HYDROMETALLURGICAL TREATMENT OF ORES OR CONCENTRATES FOR REMOVAL OF PREG-ROBBING ORGANIC CARBON MATERIAL | FIORITO, JAMES A | — |
| 17979502 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING IMPURITIES FROM CRYSTALLIZED METAL SULFATES | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18554341 | HYDROMETALLURGICAL TREATMENT OF ORES OR CONCENTRATES FOR REMOVAL OF PREG-ROBBING ORGANIC CARBON MATERIAL | FIORITO, JAMES A | 1731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
| 17979350 | METAL-DISSOLVING APPARATUS, PROCESSES AND USES THEREOF | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17979502 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR REMOVING IMPURITIES FROM CRYSTALLIZED METAL SULFATES | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialHatch Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
James A Fiorito has the most, with 1 of Hatch Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
