Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sgl Carbon SE has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 5 examiners and 5 art units, indicating one examiner and one art unit for each pending matter in the reported portfolio.
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION is the busiest examiner with 1 pending matter. That distribution gives no indication that one examiner or art unit carries a larger share of the current work. Counsel can therefore organize review by individual matter while maintaining separate art-unit considerations.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.7% | +25.5% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
| WANG, EUGENIA | 1 | 54.6% | +34.5% |
| WILLSE, DAVID H | 1 | 67.3% | +14.0% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.0% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998823 | SUBSTRATE COMPRISING TANTALUM COATING | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18854089 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18294670 | ANODE MATERIAL | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16624534 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTOR FOR A SEPARATION DEVICE COMPRISING A SCREEN MADE OF A CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 33d |
| 18998823 | SUBSTRATE COMPRISING TANTALUM COATING | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | — |
| 18854089 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18294670 | ANODE MATERIAL | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
| 18009162 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE | WILLSE, DAVID H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998823 | SUBSTRATE COMPRISING TANTALUM COATING | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18854089 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18294670 | ANODE MATERIAL | WANG, EUGENIA | 1759 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18009162 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE | WILLSE, DAVID H | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 16624534 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTOR FOR A SEPARATION DEVICE COMPRISING A SCREEN MADE OF A CARBON COMPOSITE MATERIAL | HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1776 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialSgl Carbon SE has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Alexander Marion Weddle has the most, with 1 of Sgl Carbon SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
