Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stearns Conrad And Schmidt Consulting Engineers Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. Each of these 3 actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner and is located in a different distinct art unit. This one to one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units shows a completely distributed prosecution load.
Zachary John Baum is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With only 3 total actions pending, the portfolio is small and lacks any concentration within specific art units or under specific examiners. Practitioners managing these files face a unique set of circumstances for every active application. The presence of 3 distinct art units for only 3 actions suggests that the company's filings cover diverse chemical or material science applications, requiring specialized knowledge for each individual case.
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 | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1 | 81.2% | +15.2% |
| CHONG, JASON Y | 1 | 73.3% | +18.1% |
| PO, MING CHEUNG | 1 | 37.7% | +13.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19393801 | BIOGAS HALOGEN PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634033 | BIOGAS HALOGEN REMOVAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHONG, JASON Y | 10d overdue |
| 19393801 | BIOGAS HALOGEN PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | — |
| 17870214 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS FROM BIOGASES CONTAINING VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | PO, MING CHEUNG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1736 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19393801 | BIOGAS HALOGEN PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN | 1736 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 18634033 | BIOGAS HALOGEN REMOVAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHONG, JASON Y | 1772 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 17870214 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS FROM BIOGASES CONTAINING VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS | PO, MING CHEUNG | 1771 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialStearns Conrad And Schmidt Consulting Engineers Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Zachary John Baum has the most, with 1 of Stearns Conrad And Schmidt Consulting Engineers Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
