Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Lanzatech Inc.

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
5
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.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (9)

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%)
4
Medium (44%)
1
Easy (11%)
4
Unknown (44%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (33%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)
No statute on record4 (44%)

Industry Mix

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

9
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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA 1 71.7% +42.8%
MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1 61.8% +34.7%
ROBINSON, HOPE A 1 67.9% +43.2%
GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1 76.1% +20.2%
JONES, CHRISTOPHER P 1 76.1% +24.8%
DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1 48.2% +22.6%
YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1 67.5% +42.9%
WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR 1 38.5% +80.0%
ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL 1 5.9% +50.0%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17653077 SYSTEM FOR CONTROL AND ANALYSIS OF GAS FERMENTATION PROCESSES ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL 22d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18457299 RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISMS AND USES THEREFOR DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 117d overdue
18430343 PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT RECOVERY AND CELL RECYCLE GITMAN, GABRIEL E 98d overdue
18313164 DISPERSED INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE CHEMICAL PRODUCTION INTO EXISTING OIL, GAS, PETROLEUM, AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 96d overdue
18976712 NOVEL STRAINS AND METHODS FOR THE CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF A NUTRITIVE COMPOSITION MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 66d overdue
17658602 FLEXIBLE FERMENTATION PLATFORM FOR IMPROVED CONVERSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE INTO PRODUCTS WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR 53d overdue
18976903 SINGLE CELL PROTEIN WITH ENHANCED POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID CONTENT ROBINSON, HOPE A 32d overdue
17653077 SYSTEM FOR CONTROL AND ANALYSIS OF GAS FERMENTATION PROCESSES ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL 22d overdue
18977438 SINGLE CELL PROTEIN WITH ENHANCED DIGESTIVE ENZYME CONTENT MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA 3d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1652 2
1656 1
1772 1
1776 1
1645 1
1657 1
1653 1
1687 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18977438 SINGLE CELL PROTEIN WITH ENHANCED DIGESTIVE ENZYME CONTENT MOAZZAMI, NAGHMEH NINA 1652 §103 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2024
18976712 NOVEL STRAINS AND METHODS FOR THE CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF A NUTRITIVE COMPOSITION MCKNIGHT, CIARA A 1656 §102 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2024
18976903 SINGLE CELL PROTEIN WITH ENHANCED POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID CONTENT ROBINSON, HOPE A 1652 §112 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Dec 11, 2024
18430343 PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT RECOVERY AND CELL RECYCLE GITMAN, GABRIEL E 1772 Other Final Rejection 98d overdue Pending Feb 01, 2024
18468083 PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS GAS FERMENTATION JONES, CHRISTOPHER P 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Sep 15, 2023
18457299 RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISMS AND USES THEREFOR DICKENS, AMELIA NICOLE 1645 Other Non-Final OA 117d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2023
18313164 DISPERSED INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE CHEMICAL PRODUCTION INTO EXISTING OIL, GAS, PETROLEUM, AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE YAMASAKI, ROBERT J 1657 Other Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending May 05, 2023
17658602 FLEXIBLE FERMENTATION PLATFORM FOR IMPROVED CONVERSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE INTO PRODUCTS WHITE, ASHLEY TAYLOR 1653 Other Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Apr 08, 2022
17653077 SYSTEM FOR CONTROL AND ANALYSIS OF GAS FERMENTATION PROCESSES ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL 1687 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2022

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