Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
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
Totalenergies Onetech Belgium has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, showing examiner-level breadth with some concentration at the art-unit level.
STEIN, MICHELLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The even examiner allocation favors matter-specific preparation, while the art-unit distribution may support identifying recurring technical or procedural themes.
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 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 45.3% | +35.5% |
| TESKIN, FRED M | 1 | 89.6% | +7.9% |
| SERGENT, RABON A | 1 | 55.1% | +24.1% |
| MILLER, JONATHAN | 1 | 79.7% | +18.3% |
| KAHN, RACHEL | 1 | 27.9% | +17.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18704215 | POLYMERIZATION PROCESS USING DUAL CATALYST COMPOSITIONS | TESKIN, FRED M | — |
| 18572487 | POLYMER DEVOLATILIZATION APPARATUS | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| 17919596 | PROCESS FOR POLYMERISING LACTIDE INTO POLYLACTIC ACID | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709124 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR HYDROCARBON STEAM CRACKING | STEIN, MICHELLE | — |
| 18572456 | POLYMER DEVOLATILIZATION PROCESS | SERGENT, RABON A | — |
| 18572487 | POLYMER DEVOLATILIZATION APPARATUS | MILLER, JONATHAN | — |
| 17919596 | PROCESS FOR POLYMERISING LACTIDE INTO POLYLACTIC ACID | KAHN, RACHEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1771 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709124 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR HYDROCARBON STEAM CRACKING | STEIN, MICHELLE | 1771 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18704215 | POLYMERIZATION PROCESS USING DUAL CATALYST COMPOSITIONS | TESKIN, FRED M | 1762 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18572456 | POLYMER DEVOLATILIZATION PROCESS | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18572487 | POLYMER DEVOLATILIZATION APPARATUS | MILLER, JONATHAN | 1772 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 17919596 | PROCESS FOR POLYMERISING LACTIDE INTO POLYLACTIC ACID | KAHN, RACHEL | 1766 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialTotalenergies Onetech Belgium has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Michelle Stein has the most, with 1 of Totalenergies Onetech Belgium's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
