Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swagelok Company has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are distributed across 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating that prosecution is handled through distinct examination assignments.
FREEMAN, JOHN D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A practitioner can use a common technical record for consistency, but should manage each response independently because the matters do not share one examiner or art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1 | 45.8% | +7.1% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +22.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529138 | ACTIVATION OF SELF-PASSIVATING METALS USING REAGENT COATINGS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE NITROCARBURIZATION | FREEMAN, JOHN D | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17470287 | LOW-TEMPERATURE CASE HARDENING OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ARTICLES AND MATERIALS AND TARGETED APPLICATION OF SURFACE MODIFICATION | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 53d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18529138 | ACTIVATION OF SELF-PASSIVATING METALS USING REAGENT COATINGS FOR LOW TEMPERATURE NITROCARBURIZATION | FREEMAN, JOHN D | 1787 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 17470287 | LOW-TEMPERATURE CASE HARDENING OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ARTICLES AND MATERIALS AND TARGETED APPLICATION OF SURFACE MODIFICATION | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSwagelok Company has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
John D Freeman has the most, with 1 of Swagelok Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
