Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Searas AS has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so each active matter follows its own examination path.
HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket supports individualized prosecution planning, with portfolio review focused on consistency across the separate cases.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 1 | 32.1% | +30.0% |
| SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1 | 74.1% | +19.1% |
| PREGLER, SHARON | 1 | 78.0% | +21.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558798 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR MEASURING OF A GAS DISSOLVED IN A LIQUID | SPIES, BRADLEY R | 41d |
| 19103362 | Device and method for guiding and transferring fish and liquid out of a tank | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | — |
| 17606328 | DEVICE FOR TRANSPORT AND TREATMENT OF LIQUID | PREGLER, SHARON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18558798 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR MEASURING OF A GAS DISSOLVED IN A LIQUID | SPIES, BRADLEY R | 41d |
| 19103362 | Device and method for guiding and transferring fish and liquid out of a tank | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | — |
| 17606328 | DEVICE FOR TRANSPORT AND TREATMENT OF LIQUID | PREGLER, SHARON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103362 | Device and method for guiding and transferring fish and liquid out of a tank | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 3647 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 18558798 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR MEASURING OF A GAS DISSOLVED IN A LIQUID | SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1776 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 17606328 | DEVICE FOR TRANSPORT AND TREATMENT OF LIQUID | PREGLER, SHARON | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSearas AS has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Erica Michelle Huebner has the most, with 1 of Searas AS's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
