Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
20 pending office actions • 9 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Johnson Matthey plc has 21 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio spans 17 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, indicating broad prosecution activity with repeated examiner and art-unit assignments. The distribution calls for coordination across matters without assuming that every objection reflects the same technical or procedural context.
DAVIS, SHENG HAN is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. Those matters provide a defined cluster for checking recurring claim interpretation, restriction treatment, and amendment effects. The wider examiner and art-unit distribution makes a portfolio-wide record of positions useful for maintaining consistent prosecution objectives.
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.
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.
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 | 11 (55%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 3 | 66.3% | +33.1% |
| LI, JUN | 2 | 54.5% | +57.0% |
| LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | 2 | 77.8% | +0.0% |
| BIDWELL, JAMES R | 1 | 89.7% | +8.3% |
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.7% | +17.7% |
| ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1 | 66.8% | +17.6% |
| HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1 | 51.3% | +28.3% |
| QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1 | 89.7% | +13.3% |
| TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1 | 59.2% | +30.9% |
| PATEL, SMITA S | 1 | 70.3% | +57.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17998103 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 54d |
| 19104314 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED DISCHARGE OF COMPONENTS FROM A TUBE | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263661 | ACTIVATION OF REDUCED AND PASSIVATED CATALYST | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 12d |
| 18910065 | METHOD OF COATING A CATALYST ON FLAT OR TEXTURED SUBSTRATES | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 20d |
| 18409927 | CATALYST COMPOSITION | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | — |
| 18495782 | COATINGS ON A MONOLITH ARTICLE | BERNS, DANIEL J | — |
| 18314280 | TIN CO-DOPED MIXED OXIDES FOR USE IN THREE WAY CATALYSIS | LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263661 | ACTIVATION OF REDUCED AND PASSIVATED CATALYST | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 12d |
| 18910065 | METHOD OF COATING A CATALYST ON FLAT OR TEXTURED SUBSTRATES | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 20d |
| 17998103 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 54d |
| 18839248 | STABILISED ZINC OXIDE MATERIALS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18710046 | LOW-CARBON HYDROGEN PROCESS | LI, JUN | — |
| 18006681 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A GAS STREAM COMPRISING CARBON MONOXIDE | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | — |
| 17891093 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WET AIR OXIDATION REGENERATION OF CATALYSTS | LI, JUN | — |
| 18437280 | SCR CATALYST ARTICLE AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING N2O IN EXHAUST GAS | PATEL, SMITA S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 9 |
| 1736 | 3 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1626 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104314 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLED DISCHARGE OF COMPONENTS FROM A TUBE | BIDWELL, JAMES R | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 18839248 | STABILISED ZINC OXIDE MATERIALS | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18710046 | LOW-CARBON HYDROGEN PROCESS | LI, JUN | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18263661 | ACTIVATION OF REDUCED AND PASSIVATED CATALYST | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18006681 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A GAS STREAM COMPRISING CARBON MONOXIDE | HAVLIN, ROBERT H | 1626 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 17998103 | PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN | QUIST, NICOLE LEE | 1738 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
| 17891093 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WET AIR OXIDATION REGENERATION OF CATALYSTS | LI, JUN | 1732 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2022 |
| 18910065 | METHOD OF COATING A CATALYST ON FLAT OR TEXTURED SUBSTRATES | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18437280 | SCR CATALYST ARTICLE AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING N2O IN EXHAUST GAS | PATEL, SMITA S | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18429460 | CATALYST ARTICLE HAVING HIGH LOCAL RHODIUM CONCENTRATION | MCCAIG, BRIAN A | 1772 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 01, 2024 |
| 18411090 | COATINGS ON A MONOLITH ARTICLE | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18409927 | CATALYST COMPOSITION | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18495782 | COATINGS ON A MONOLITH ARTICLE | BERNS, DANIEL J | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18355425 | SULPHUR TOLERANCE IN Cu-SCR CATALYSTS | SIMKINS, SLONE ELIZABETH | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
| 18315892 | ZONED TWC CATALYSTS FOR GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST GAS TREATMENTS | LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18314280 | TIN CO-DOPED MIXED OXIDES FOR USE IN THREE WAY CATALYSIS | LALISSE, REMY FREDERIC | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2023 |
| 18067932 | COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS COMBUSTION AND EXHAUST SYSTEM | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2022 |
| 18050067 | CATALYSTS FOR GASOLINE EXHAUST GAS TREATMENTS WITH IMPROVED AMMONIA EMISSION CONTROL | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 18049371 | POLYMALEIC ACID ASSISTED METAL NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS FOR THREE-WAY CATALYSIS APPLICATION | LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD | 1736 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
| 17998594 | ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialJohnson Matthey plc has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 16 examiners.
Sheng Han Davis has the most, with 3 of Johnson Matthey plc's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
