Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hero Scientific Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so the portfolio shows separate examination paths for each pending action.
WALLENHORST, MAUREEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Because no examiner has a larger recorded allocation, counsel should use matter-specific review for claim construction, cited references, and amendment strategy. Shared chemistry and materials terminology can remain consistent across the applications, while responses should reflect the practice of each assigned art unit.
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 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | 1 | 78.9% | +5.9% |
| PEO, KARA M | 1 | 42.5% | +37.8% |
| HINES, JANA A | 1 | 53.2% | +39.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17122594 | TESTING FOR PARTICULATES | HINES, JANA A | 26d overdue |
| 18023607 | FILTRATION TESTING DEVICES | PEO, KARA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1797 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18543136 | FILTRATION SAMPLING METHODS | WALLENHORST, MAUREEN | 1797 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18023607 | FILTRATION TESTING DEVICES | PEO, KARA M | 1777 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 17122594 | TESTING FOR PARTICULATES | HINES, JANA A | 1645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialHero Scientific Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Maureen Wallenhorst has the most, with 1 of Hero Scientific Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
