Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 11 examiners across 8 art units, demonstrating a widely distributed prosecution workload across examination groups.
STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for more than that assignment in the available data, so portfolio management should emphasize coordination across the full examiner and art-unit set rather than reliance on one recurring contact.
The breadth of assignment calls for disciplined matter tracking. Counsel can maintain a shared record of technical definitions, specification support, and recurring prior-art distinctions, while allowing each response to address its own search and objections. Art-unit-specific review is particularly important because related surface-treatment or materials claims may encounter different examination perspectives.
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 (27%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (73%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| PATEL, RONAK C | 1 | 51.2% | +56.2% |
| O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1 | 65.6% | +13.6% |
| GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1 | 73.1% | +18.4% |
| WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1 | 66.7% | +42.9% |
| WIESE, NOAH S | 1 | 83.4% | -1.8% |
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
| MORALES, RICARDO D | 1 | 81.4% | +16.9% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.7% |
| CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1 | 51.6% | +37.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18260100 | COMPLEX OXIDE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS WITH LOW THERMAL INERTIA AND LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | WIESE, NOAH S | 37d overdue |
| 17641941 | LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 7d |
| 18086963 | DEVICE FOR DRAWING FILAMENTS TO FORM A NONWOVEN FABRIC | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 41d |
| 18729756 | SILVER BRAZE ALLOYS FOR POLY-CRYSTALLINE DIAMOND CUTTERS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| 18705809 | HIGH PURITY NI -CR-W-MO-LA ALLOY FOR POWDER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| 18264086 | OXIDATION BARRIER MATERIALS AND PROCESS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| 18022583 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED MICROWAVE SHIELDING PERFORMANCE | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 17927890 | HDH (HYDRIDE-DEHYDRIDE) PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF BRAZE ALLOY POWDERS | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17641941 | LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 7d |
| 18706519 | POROUS AGGLOMERATES AND ENCAPSULATED AGGLOMERATES FOR ABRADABLE SEALANT MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PATEL, RONAK C | — |
| 18705809 | HIGH PURITY NI -CR-W-MO-LA ALLOY FOR POWDER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | — |
| 18264086 | OXIDATION BARRIER MATERIALS AND PROCESS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | — |
| 18260095 | THERMALLY STABLE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS THAT EXHIBIT IMPROVED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND EROSION RESISTANCE | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | — |
| 18022583 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED MICROWAVE SHIELDING PERFORMANCE | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 17927890 | HDH (HYDRIDE-DEHYDRIDE) PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF BRAZE ALLOY POWDERS | MORALES, RICARDO D | — |
| 17765564 | LOW MELTING NICKEL-MANGANESE-SILICON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1738 | 2 |
| 1735 | 2 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729756 | SILVER BRAZE ALLOYS FOR POLY-CRYSTALLINE DIAMOND CUTTERS | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18706519 | POROUS AGGLOMERATES AND ENCAPSULATED AGGLOMERATES FOR ABRADABLE SEALANT MATERIALS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PATEL, RONAK C | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18705809 | HIGH PURITY NI -CR-W-MO-LA ALLOY FOR POWDER BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | O'KEEFE, SEAN P | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18264086 | OXIDATION BARRIER MATERIALS AND PROCESS FOR CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES | GREGORIO, GUINEVER S | 1732 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18260095 | THERMALLY STABLE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS THAT EXHIBIT IMPROVED THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND EROSION RESISTANCE | WALKER, AJA ARYANNA | 1761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18260100 | COMPLEX OXIDE THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS WITH LOW THERMAL INERTIA AND LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY | WIESE, NOAH S | 1731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18022583 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FILLERS WITH IMPROVED MICROWAVE SHIELDING PERFORMANCE | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
| 17927890 | HDH (HYDRIDE-DEHYDRIDE) PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF BRAZE ALLOY POWDERS | MORALES, RICARDO D | 1738 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2022 |
| 17765564 | LOW MELTING NICKEL-MANGANESE-SILICON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
| 17641941 | LOW MELTING IRON BASED BRAZE FILLER METALS FOR HEAT EXCHANGER APPLICATIONS | CARPENTER, JOSHUA S | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 10, 2022 |
| 18086963 | DEVICE FOR DRAWING FILAMENTS TO FORM A NONWOVEN FABRIC | MELENDEZ, ARMAND | 1759 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialOerlikon Surface Solutions AG has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 11 examiners.
Jacob Benjamin Stiles has the most, with 1 of Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
