Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hsustainability GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 3 examiners and 2 art units, creating a portfolio that requires both centralized coordination and examiner-specific preparation. The workload is not evenly distributed among examiners.
CASE, SARAH CATHERINE is the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions. Counsel should compare the issues in those matters for recurring claim language, cited references, and amendment opportunities. The remaining actions should be reviewed separately by art unit, because a common chemistry theme does not establish that the same prosecution response will work across every assignment.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 2 | 41.1% | +50.8% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 2 | 54.9% | +45.7% |
| GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 2 | 69.2% | +16.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18692423 | IMPROVING REACTIVITY OF CARBONATED RECYCLED CONCRETE FINES | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — |
| 18026155 | TRANSFORMATION OF LUMP SLAG INTO SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL BY CARBONATIZATION | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570239 | CARBONATION OF CALCIUM SULFATE CONTAINING MATERIALS | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 62d |
| 18833956 | METHOD FOR CARBONATING WASTE MATERIALS | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| 18692426 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL | WEISS, PAMELA HL | — |
| 18692423 | IMPROVING REACTIVITY OF CARBONATED RECYCLED CONCRETE FINES | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | — |
| 18290179 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL | WEISS, PAMELA HL | — |
| 18026155 | TRANSFORMATION OF LUMP SLAG INTO SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL BY CARBONATIZATION | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 4 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833956 | METHOD FOR CARBONATING WASTE MATERIALS | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18692426 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL | WEISS, PAMELA HL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18692423 | IMPROVING REACTIVITY OF CARBONATED RECYCLED CONCRETE FINES | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18570239 | CARBONATION OF CALCIUM SULFATE CONTAINING MATERIALS | GUINO-O UZZLE, MARITES A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18290179 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18026155 | TRANSFORMATION OF LUMP SLAG INTO SUPPLEMENTARY CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL BY CARBONATIZATION | CASE, SARAH CATHERINE | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHsustainability GmbH has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Sarah Catherine Case has the most, with 2 of Hsustainability GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
