Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hengst SE has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is being examined across separate prosecution channels rather than through a single recurring assignment.
EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because the listed examiner and art-unit counts track the office-action count, portfolio management should account for distinct examiner interactions in each matter.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1 | 94.1% | +0.0% |
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 54.8% | +13.6% |
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 66.1% | +51.3% |
| HUANG, RYAN | 1 | 53.1% | +31.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839947 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FILTER ELEMENT | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | — |
| 18574345 | RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING A RECIRCULATION FLOW EXITING A FUEL CELL | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 18535596 | MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17312833 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE OPERATING PARAMETER OF A FILTER OR A FILTER CARTRIDGE ARRANGED IN THE FILTER, AND FILTER CARTRIDGE | HUANG, RYAN | 79d |
| 18574345 | RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING A RECIRCULATION FLOW EXITING A FUEL CELL | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | — |
| 18535596 | MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1721 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839947 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FILTER ELEMENT | EZELUOMBA, MIRIAM NCHEKWUBECHU | 1776 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18574345 | RECOVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING A RECIRCULATION FLOW EXITING A FUEL CELL | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18535596 | MICROPLASTIC FILTER FOR A WASHING MACHINE | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 17312833 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE OPERATING PARAMETER OF A FILTER OR A FILTER CARTRIDGE ARRANGED IN THE FILTER, AND FILTER CARTRIDGE | HUANG, RYAN | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jun 10, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialHengst SE has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Miriam Nchekwubechu Ezeluomba has the most, with 1 of Hengst SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
