Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company

10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 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%)
7
Medium (70%)
1
Easy (10%)
2
Unknown (20%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (60%)
§102 only1 (10%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

10
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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
QUIST, NICOLE LEE 2 93.9% +8.3%
TALBOT, BRIAN K 1 59.1% +30.7%
SAEED, KAMAL A 1 84.1% +9.3%
PATEL, SAGAR S 1 76.1% +33.8%
HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1 88.2% +10.0%
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1 79.5% +13.5%
PARSA, JAFAR F 1 87.3% +8.7%
LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 1 77.8% +23.7%
PATEL, SMITA S 1 70.3% +56.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18465191 TINY TRANSITION METAL INCORPORATED CATALYSTS FOR GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST GAS TREATMENTS HAILEY, PATRICIA L 8d overdue
18719581 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN AND METHOD OF RETROFITTING A HYDROGEN PRODUCTION UNIT QUIST, NICOLE LEE 3d overdue
18245488 PROCESS PARSA, JAFAR F 76d

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18048306 CATALYST FOR TREATING EXHAUST GAS PATEL, SMITA S 74d overdue
18557217 PROCESS FOR PREPARING PEXIDARTINIB PATEL, SAGAR S 17d overdue
18465191 TINY TRANSITION METAL INCORPORATED CATALYSTS FOR GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST GAS TREATMENTS HAILEY, PATRICIA L 8d overdue
18354660 CATALYTIC FILTER FOR GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST TREATMENT BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 14d
18910065 METHOD OF COATING A CATALYST ON FLAT OR TEXTURED SUBSTRATES TALBOT, BRIAN K 20d
18049371 POLYMALEIC ACID ASSISTED METAL NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS FOR THREE-WAY CATALYSIS APPLICATION LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1738 2
1626 2
1732 2
1736 2
1712 1
1692 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18910065 METHOD OF COATING A CATALYST ON FLAT OR TEXTURED SUBSTRATES TALBOT, BRIAN K 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Oct 09, 2024
18719581 PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN AND METHOD OF RETROFITTING A HYDROGEN PRODUCTION UNIT QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1738 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18557827 PROCESS SAEED, KAMAL A 1626 Other Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2023
18557217 PROCESS FOR PREPARING PEXIDARTINIB PATEL, SAGAR S 1626 §112 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2023
18465191 TINY TRANSITION METAL INCORPORATED CATALYSTS FOR GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST GAS TREATMENTS HAILEY, PATRICIA L 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
18354660 CATALYTIC FILTER FOR GASOLINE ENGINE EXHAUST TREATMENT BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18245488 PROCESS PARSA, JAFAR F 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Mar 15, 2023
17998103 PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN QUIST, NICOLE LEE 1738 Other Non-Final OA 54d Pending Nov 07, 2022
18049371 POLYMALEIC ACID ASSISTED METAL NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS FOR THREE-WAY CATALYSIS APPLICATION LACLAIR, LOGAN EDWARD 1736 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 25, 2022
18048306 CATALYST FOR TREATING EXHAUST GAS PATEL, SMITA S 1732 §102 Non-Final OA 74d overdue Pending Oct 20, 2022

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