Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sartorius AG has 13 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed among 13 examiners and 8 art units, indicating broad examiner involvement and repeated activity within some art units.
RAEVIS, ROBERT R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The absence of a larger concentration with that examiner makes portfolio-wide docket coordination important, while art-unit-level review may reveal the most useful patterns for response planning.
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 | 2 (15%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (69%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 1 | 83.3% | +15.3% |
| BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.1% | +21.3% |
| GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1 | 72.3% | +37.8% |
| GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1 | 72.4% | +16.0% |
| ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1 | 40.0% | +40.0% |
| KWAK, DEAN P | 1 | 58.8% | +37.1% |
| EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1 | 60.1% | +6.0% |
| KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1 | 64.3% | +35.5% |
| PATEL, PRANAV N | 1 | 68.8% | +21.7% |
| HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1 | 59.1% | +53.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014583 | AUTOMATED CENTRIFUGE SETUP OF A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 31d overdue |
| 18877235 | SENSOR HOLDING DEVICE | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | — |
| 18852416 | SEPARATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — |
| 18700457 | SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | — |
| 18566208 | PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| 18283403 | DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS VIRUS INACTIVATION | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | — |
| 18281159 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS INSTALLATION | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
| 18015934 | DEVICE ASSEMBLY FOR PRODUCING BIOCONJUGATES | PATEL, PRANAV N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014583 | AUTOMATED CENTRIFUGE SETUP OF A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 31d overdue |
| 18877235 | SENSOR HOLDING DEVICE | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | — |
| 18977545 | CENTRIFUGE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A CENTRIFUGE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
| 18852416 | SEPARATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | — |
| 18882894 | DISPOSABLE FILTER CAPSULE FOR A FILTRATION DEVICE | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | — |
| 18700457 | SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | — |
| 18566208 | PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | KWAK, DEAN P | — |
| 18281159 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS INSTALLATION | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 3 |
| 1799 | 3 |
| 1798 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1796 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18877235 | SENSOR HOLDING DEVICE | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18977545 | CENTRIFUGE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A CENTRIFUGE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18852416 | SEPARATION SYSTEM FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT | GURTOWSKI, RICHARD C | 1773 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18882894 | DISPOSABLE FILTER CAPSULE FOR A FILTRATION DEVICE | GONZALEZ, MADELINE | 1773 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18700457 | SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING AND PURIFYING A TARGET COMPONENT | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1773 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18566208 | PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING MEMBRANE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD | KWAK, DEAN P | 1798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18283403 | DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUS VIRUS INACTIVATION | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18281159 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BIOPROCESS INSTALLATION | KRCHA, MATTHEW D | 1799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
| 18015934 | DEVICE ASSEMBLY FOR PRODUCING BIOCONJUGATES | PATEL, PRANAV N | 1777 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 18014583 | AUTOMATED CENTRIFUGE SETUP OF A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION | HERBERT, MADISON TAYLOR | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2023 |
| 17928196 | SPARGING DEVICE | BOWERS, NATHAN ANDREW | 1799 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17922165 | AERATION DEVICE FOR A BIOPROCESSING INSTALLATION | HENKEL, DANIELLE B | 1799 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17534108 | BIOPROCESS FILTRATION EXPERIMENT SYSTEM | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 23, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSartorius AG has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 13 examiners.
Robert R Raevis has the most, with 1 of Sartorius AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
