Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Umicore S.A.

15 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
10
Medium (67%)
4
Easy (27%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (53%)
§102 only1 (7%)
§112 only3 (20%)
Double-patenting only1 (7%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

12
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
13% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 2 52.6% +11.2%
JONES, OLIVIA ANN 2 59.1% +56.7%
VETERE, ROBERT A 1 61.1% +12.8%
COHEN, STEFANIE J 1 75.2% +2.4%
FANG, SHANE 1 76.3% +18.8%
IQBAL, SYED TAHA 1 80.0% +21.8%
FIORITO, JAMES A 1 71.1% +28.6%
NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN 1 74.4% +18.7%
KOPEC, MARK T 1 84.4% +12.9%
RUMP, RICHARD M 1 74.5% +20.1%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18256412 CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE PARTICLE FILTER WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF FILTERING EFFICIENCY IQBAL, SYED TAHA 51d overdue
18703517 METHOD FOR PREPARING A PRECURSOR MATERIAL FOR A LI-CONTAINING CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL KOPEC, MARK T

Interview Candidates (11)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18256412 CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE PARTICLE FILTER WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF FILTERING EFFICIENCY IQBAL, SYED TAHA 51d overdue
16500127 PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF LITHIUM PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 16d overdue
18256407 CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE PARTICLE FILTER WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF FILTERING EFFICIENCY FIORITO, JAMES A 5d
18711938 A METHOD FOR IRON AND COPPER REMOVAL FROM SOLUTION USING METALLIC REAGENTS PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 28d
18412716 BETA-NICKEL HYDROXIDE DOPED WITH ALUMINUM RUMP, RICHARD M 71d
19013399 METHOD FOR COATING A WALL-FLOW FILTER VETERE, ROBERT A
18262532 PRECIOUS METAL COMPLEXES WITH DIHYDROAZULENYL LIGANDS AND USE THEREOF FANG, SHANE
18873800 POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1733 2
1789 2
1712 1
1732 1
1766 1
1736 1
1731 1
1762 1
1759 1
2814 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19013399 METHOD FOR COATING A WALL-FLOW FILTER VETERE, ROBERT A 1712 DPOther Non-Final OA Pending Jan 08, 2025
18547824 CATALYST FOR THE ABATEMENT OF AMMONIA FROM THE EXHAUST OF GASOLINE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES COHEN, STEFANIE J 1732 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 24, 2023
18262532 PRECIOUS METAL COMPLEXES WITH DIHYDROAZULENYL LIGANDS AND USE THEREOF FANG, SHANE 1766 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 21, 2023
18256412 CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE PARTICLE FILTER WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF FILTERING EFFICIENCY IQBAL, SYED TAHA 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18256407 CATALYTICALLY ACTIVE PARTICLE FILTER WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF FILTERING EFFICIENCY FIORITO, JAMES A 1731 §102 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18873800 POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL NGUYEN, KHANH TUAN §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 11, 2024
18711938 A METHOD FOR IRON AND COPPER REMOVAL FROM SOLUTION USING METALLIC REAGENTS PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1733 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 21, 2024
18703517 METHOD FOR PREPARING A PRECURSOR MATERIAL FOR A LI-CONTAINING CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL KOPEC, MARK T 1762 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 22, 2024
18412716 BETA-NICKEL HYDROXIDE DOPED WITH ALUMINUM RUMP, RICHARD M 1759 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Jan 15, 2024
18562941 NOVEL BISPIDONE LIGANDS AND TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES THEREOF BRADY, KRISTEN WEEKS §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 21, 2023
18562058 COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERED STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING THE SAME MCCOY, THOMAS WILSON 2814 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18265527 A POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES WILLS, MONIQUE M 1723 §112 Final Rejection 69d Pending Jun 06, 2023
18249621 ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL WITH A SPECIFIC LIQUID ELECTROLYTE JONES, OLIVIA ANN 1789 DP Final Rejection Pending Apr 19, 2023
18249606 ELECTROLYTE FOR LITHIUM SECONDARY BATTERIES JONES, OLIVIA ANN 1789 Other Final Rejection Pending Apr 19, 2023
16500127 PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF LITHIUM PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1733 §112 Final Rejection 16d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2019

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