Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suez Groupe has 4 pending office actions within the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. This ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates the current filing strategy within the biotechnology sector. Each application is being treated as a technical matter by different divisions of the patent office, suggesting a diverse range of subject matter under review.
MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. With 4 pending office actions total, no single examiner holds a majority of the workload, leading to a fragmented prosecution landscape. This distribution across the assigned art units requires the prosecution team to navigate multiple examiner perspectives and unit specific practices. The presence of 4 distinct examiners suggests that the company's current biotechnology filings cover several innovations rather than a single clustered technology, necessitating a versatile legal approach across 4 distinct art units.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1 | 79.2% | +37.2% |
| POPE, DARYL C | 1 | 85.6% | +6.3% |
| SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1 | 77.8% | -2.5% |
| SULTANA, DILARA | 1 | 80.9% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17414868 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PIPE CONDITION | SULTANA, DILARA | 121d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718727 | BIOMETHANATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | — |
| 18717879 | DETECTION OF DOMESTIC USES OF WATER CONSUMPTION | POPE, DARYL C | — |
| 18259377 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING A METAL CONTAINING HOMOGENEOUS CATALYST USING SOLID ADSORBENTS | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17414868 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PIPE CONDITION | SULTANA, DILARA | 121d overdue |
| 18718727 | BIOMETHANATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1651 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718727 | BIOMETHANATION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM | 1651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18717879 | DETECTION OF DOMESTIC USES OF WATER CONSUMPTION | POPE, DARYL C | 2686 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18259377 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING A METAL CONTAINING HOMOGENEOUS CATALYST USING SOLID ADSORBENTS | SPEER, JOSHUA MAXWELL | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
| 17414868 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING PIPE CONDITION | SULTANA, DILARA | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | 121d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSuez Groupe has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Maryam Monshipouri has the most, with 1 of Suez Groupe's pending office actions.
Mostly Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals (USPTO Tech Center 1600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
