Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stratec SE has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio includes 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so the actions are spread among examiners while one art unit receives matters from more than one examination assignment.
The portfolio calls for coordinated technical terminology and centralized tracking, combined with response plans tailored to each examiner. The art-unit distribution may support grouping matters for materials-related review, but the distinct examiner assignments require attention to individual objections and cited references. Counsel should compare claim scope and specification support across the applications without treating any single response as controlling for the others.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §103 only | 4 (57%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 1 | 77.0% | +20.7% |
| JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 1 | 62.1% | +27.5% |
| WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1 | 66.7% | +68.3% |
| LIU, SHUYI S | 1 | 73.4% | +25.8% |
| QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 53.3% | +34.2% |
| HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.5% |
| KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1 | 31.1% | +64.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17878266 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT BARRIER PROCESSING | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 9d overdue |
| 18632589 | Pressure monitored piston pump | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 4d overdue |
| 18201557 | System for the Microfluidic Distribution of Fluids | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 53d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17878266 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT BARRIER PROCESSING | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 9d overdue |
| 18632589 | Pressure monitored piston pump | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 4d overdue |
| 18659257 | FILTER FOR FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 30d |
| 18201557 | System for the Microfluidic Distribution of Fluids | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 53d |
| 18144598 | CENTRIFUGE WITH SAFETY SHUTTER | LIU, SHUYI S | — |
| 18097585 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING RINSING PROCESSES | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | — |
| 17590865 | DEVICE FOR MOVING PROBES | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1798 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2877 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18659257 | FILTER FOR FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS | BALLMAN, CHRISTOPHER D | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18632589 | Pressure monitored piston pump | JARIWALA, CHIRAG | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18201557 | System for the Microfluidic Distribution of Fluids | WHATLEY, BENJAMIN R | 1798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18144598 | CENTRIFUGE WITH SAFETY SHUTTER | LIU, SHUYI S | 1774 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18097585 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING RINSING PROCESSES | QUIGLEY, KYLE ROBERT | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 17878266 | ADAPTIVE LIGHT BARRIER PROCESSING | HANSEN, JONATHAN M | 2877 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
| 17590865 | DEVICE FOR MOVING PROBES | KASS, BENJAMIN JOSEPH | 1798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialStratec SE has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Christopher D Ballman has the most, with 1 of Stratec SE's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
