Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pfeifer & Langen UK Limited currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio is characterized by a distributed prosecution environment, as the active cases are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. Such a distribution suggests that the company's chemical innovations are diverse enough to fall under different technical classifications at the patent office, requiring a strategy that accounts for multiple sets of examiner expectations and art unit guidelines.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MERRIAM, ANDREW E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 distinct examiners in total, the workload is split such that no single examiner dominates the prosecution of the company's current applications. For a practitioner, this means that the outcomes for the 2 pending office actions will likely be independent of one another, as they are being reviewed by different individuals in different art units. This lack of concentration requires a tailored approach for each filing to address the specific technical nuances identified by each examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1 | 28.3% | +33.9% |
| BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1 | 16.8% | +35.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486733 | SACCHARIDE COMPOSITIONS HAVING SUCROSE-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS AND RELATED METHODS | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 5d |
| 18488702 | INSOLUBLE SACCHARIDE-COMPRISING COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18486733 | SACCHARIDE COMPOSITIONS HAVING SUCROSE-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS AND RELATED METHODS | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 5d |
| 18488702 | INSOLUBLE SACCHARIDE-COMPRISING COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1791 | 1 |
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18488702 | INSOLUBLE SACCHARIDE-COMPRISING COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | MERRIAM, ANDREW E | 1791 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
| 18486733 | SACCHARIDE COMPOSITIONS HAVING SUCROSE-LIKE CHARACTERISTICS AND RELATED METHODS | BEKKER, KELLY JO | 1792 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPfeifer & Langen UK Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Andrew E Merriam has the most, with 1 of Pfeifer & Langen UK Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
