Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hempel A/S has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing examiner diversity within a more concentrated technical grouping.
AHMED, JAMIL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate materials-related positions across the shared art-unit context while tailoring responses to each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMED, JAMIL | 1 | 82.1% | +15.1% |
| ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1 | 65.4% | +36.6% |
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.8% | +44.3% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.5% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17051806 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A FOULING RELEASE COATING SYSTEM | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 43d overdue |
| 19109193 | SURFACE CHARACTERIZING DEVICE SYSTEM | AHMED, JAMIL | — |
| 18876801 | POLYSILOXANE BASED INTUMESCENT COATING COMPOSITION | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | — |
| 18255877 | PUTTY COMPOSITION FOR WIND TURBINE BLADES | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17051806 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A FOULING RELEASE COATING SYSTEM | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 43d overdue |
| 19109193 | SURFACE CHARACTERIZING DEVICE SYSTEM | AHMED, JAMIL | — |
| 18876801 | POLYSILOXANE BASED INTUMESCENT COATING COMPOSITION | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | — |
| 18255877 | PUTTY COMPOSITION FOR WIND TURBINE BLADES | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 3 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19109193 | SURFACE CHARACTERIZING DEVICE SYSTEM | AHMED, JAMIL | 2877 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18876801 | POLYSILOXANE BASED INTUMESCENT COATING COMPOSITION | ROELOFSE, CHRISTIAAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18255877 | PUTTY COMPOSITION FOR WIND TURBINE BLADES | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
| 17051806 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A FOULING RELEASE COATING SYSTEM | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHempel A/S has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Jamil Ahmed has the most, with 1 of Hempel A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
