Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sabic Agri-Nutrients Company currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a one-to-one ratio between pending actions and the personnel reviewing them. For a practitioner, this distribution suggests that prosecution strategies are not concentrated in a single silo but are instead spread across multiple specialized units.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LANGEL, WAYNE A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this examiner handles only 1 of the 3 total pending actions, the workload is evenly divided among the personnel involved. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's individual tendencies or historical allowance rates will dominate the overall prosecution outcome for the company.
Navigating the 3 distinct art units requires a broad understanding of various examination practices within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. Practitioners should prepare for diverse feedback, as each examiner may apply different interpretations of patentability standards. The presence of these actions across the various units highlights the need for a versatile approach to responding to USPTO communications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1 | 52.7% | +35.6% |
| LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1 | 78.4% | +23.3% |
| CELSA, BENNETT M | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18702830 | Continuous Methods for Forming Methylene Urea-Isobutylene Diurea Granules | CELSA, BENNETT 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711303 | Fertilizer Composition Including Multi-Micronutrients | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 8d |
| 18711373 | Methods of Making Urea Calcium Sulfate (UCS) Using High Shear Mixing | LANGEL, WAYNE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1600 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711303 | Fertilizer Composition Including Multi-Micronutrients | WERTZ, ASHLEE ELIZABETH | 1612 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18711373 | Methods of Making Urea Calcium Sulfate (UCS) Using High Shear Mixing | LANGEL, WAYNE A | 1736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18702830 | Continuous Methods for Forming Methylene Urea-Isobutylene Diurea Granules | CELSA, BENNETT M | 1600 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSabic Agri-Nutrients Company has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Ashlee Elizabeth Wertz has the most, with 1 of Sabic Agri-Nutrients Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
