Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hydromecanique Et Frottement has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners across 2 art units.
ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Counsel should review the chemistry issues separately while maintaining consistent terminology and disclosure support across both matters.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ | 1 | 80.0% | +0.0% |
| BAND, MICHAEL A | 1 | 45.1% | +55.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18834054 | METHOD FOR TREATING WASTE WATERS AND RESIDUE SLUDGE BY MEANS OF CARBONATION IN A CHEMICAL INSTALLATION FOR NITRIDATION IN A MOLTEN SALT BATH | ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557430 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITION OF DENSE CHROMIUM ON A SUBSTRATE | BAND, MICHAEL A | 69d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18557430 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITION OF DENSE CHROMIUM ON A SUBSTRATE | BAND, MICHAEL A | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18834054 | METHOD FOR TREATING WASTE WATERS AND RESIDUE SLUDGE BY MEANS OF CARBONATION IN A CHEMICAL INSTALLATION FOR NITRIDATION IN A MOLTEN SALT BATH | ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18557430 | METHOD FOR DEPOSITION OF DENSE CHROMIUM ON A SUBSTRATE | BAND, MICHAEL A | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHydromecanique Et Frottement has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mahmoud Motaz Abdel Latif has the most, with 1 of Hydromecanique Et Frottement's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
