Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Johnson Matthey Catalysts (Germany) GmbH

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

4
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
DAVIS, SHENG HAN 2 65.9% +35.2%
NGUYEN, HUY TRAM 1 79.0% +6.7%
GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1 76.1% +20.2%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18069579 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM GITMAN, GABRIEL E 4d overdue
18048509 METHOD AND CATALYST ARTICLE DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1d overdue
18164736 VANADIUM-FREE TITANIA-BASED SCR CATALYST ARTICLE DAVIS, SHENG HAN 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1732 2
1774 1
1772 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18132591 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM NGUYEN, HUY TRAM 1774 §103 Non-Final OA 82d Pending Apr 10, 2023
18164736 VANADIUM-FREE TITANIA-BASED SCR CATALYST ARTICLE DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Feb 06, 2023
18069579 EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT SYSTEM GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1772 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2022
18048509 METHOD AND CATALYST ARTICLE DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022

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