Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Munters Corporation is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's pending matters are spread among several different individuals, with the number of pending office actions matching the number of distinct examiners.
The busiest examiner for the company is HOPKINS, ROBERT A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The data shows 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, indicating that the workload is distributed among all examiners involved. The involvement of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's intellectual property in Chemistry & Materials is being reviewed by multiple specialized groups at the USPTO. This spread across 4 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners requires a prosecution approach that can manage different examiner perspectives across a variety of technical departments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1 | 84.5% | +7.6% |
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 59.5% | +3.7% |
| ROYSTON, JOHN M | 1 | 78.0% | +16.6% |
| MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1 | 57.5% | +22.7% |
| DUNN, DARRIN D | 1 | 75.3% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645824 | ROTARY SORPTION SYSTEM INCLUDING RECYCLED ISOLATION LOOP AND PURGE STREAM | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18090171 | SEALING DEVICE FOR A GAS SORPTION ROTOR OF AN AIR TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GAS SORPTION ROTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AIR TREATMENT SYSTEM | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 6d |
| 18644350 | FLUID PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH AVERAGING MANIFOLD FOR PARAMETER MEASUREMENT | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18082774 | METHODS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING FLUID CONDITIONING SYSTEM INCLUDING PLURAL FLUID CONDITIONING UNITS | DUNN, DARRIN D | 31d overdue |
| 18090171 | SEALING DEVICE FOR A GAS SORPTION ROTOR OF AN AIR TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GAS SORPTION ROTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AIR TREATMENT SYSTEM | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 6d |
| 18644350 | FLUID PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH AVERAGING MANIFOLD FOR PARAMETER MEASUREMENT | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645824 | ROTARY SORPTION SYSTEM INCLUDING RECYCLED ISOLATION LOOP AND PURGE STREAM | HOPKINS, ROBERT A | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18644551 | ROTOR FOR AN AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM WITH A PLURALITY OF SORBENT SECTIONS | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18644350 | FLUID PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH AVERAGING MANIFOLD FOR PARAMETER MEASUREMENT | ROYSTON, JOHN M | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18090171 | SEALING DEVICE FOR A GAS SORPTION ROTOR OF AN AIR TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A GAS SORPTION ROTOR ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AIR TREATMENT SYSTEM | MCKENZIE, THOMAS B | 1776 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 28, 2022 |
| 18082774 | METHODS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING FLUID CONDITIONING SYSTEM INCLUDING PLURAL FLUID CONDITIONING UNITS | DUNN, DARRIN D | 2117 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMunters Corporation has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Robert A Hopkins has the most, with 1 of Munters Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
