Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Veolia Environnement S.A. has 5 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The workload involves 5 examiners and 4 art units, showing distribution among examiners with some shared technical-unit coverage.
MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate recurring technical positions across the portfolio and still evaluate each office action on its own record.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1 | 81.1% | +4.0% |
| MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.7% | +17.7% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
| MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1 | 66.1% | +51.3% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18721986 | A Method of Monitoring Processes in an Urban Water Cycle | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | — |
| 18292987 | Process for Removing Selenium from Wastewater Using Biological Reduction and Surface Complexation | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573168 | Method for Treating Water on Membranes Integrating Adsorption on Activated Carbon in the Form of Micrograins | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18041379 | BIOFILM CARRIER FOR MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 38d overdue |
| 18573168 | Method for Treating Water on Membranes Integrating Adsorption on Activated Carbon in the Form of Micrograins | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 17621383 | System and Process for Removing Ammonium from a Wastewater Stream | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 2 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18721986 | A Method of Monitoring Processes in an Urban Water Cycle | MUTREJA, JYOTI NAGPAUL | 1798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18292987 | Process for Removing Selenium from Wastewater Using Biological Reduction and Surface Complexation | MENDOZA, WILSON GALLARDO | 1772 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18573168 | Method for Treating Water on Membranes Integrating Adsorption on Activated Carbon in the Form of Micrograins | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1779 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18041379 | BIOFILM CARRIER FOR MOVING BED BIOFILM REACTORS | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17621383 | System and Process for Removing Ammonium from a Wastewater Stream | MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialVeolia Environnement S.A. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Jyoti Nagpaul Mutreja has the most, with 1 of Veolia Environnement S.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
