Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
32 pending office actions • 17 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 32 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wacker Chemie AG maintains a robust portfolio with 30 pending office actions concentrated in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 28 distinct examiners and 17 distinct art units, reflecting a broad and complex research and development footprint. The high number of 17 distinct art units suggests that the company's chemical innovations span a wide variety of specialized classifications within the patent office. The busiest examiner, STEADMAN, DAVID J, is currently handling 2 pending office actions, which is a low concentration for a portfolio of this size.
This distribution indicates that despite the volume of 30 pending office actions, the workload is highly decentralized, with no single examiner controlling a large portion of the portfolio. For a practitioner, this distribution across 28 distinct examiners means that prosecution outcomes will likely vary based on individual examiner styles rather than a unified art unit trend. Managing the portfolio across 17 distinct art units requires a versatile strategy to address the diverse technical requirements of each group. The lack of concentration under STEADMAN, DAVID J or any other single examiner means that practitioners must prepare for many different sets of examiner preferences, making it difficult to apply a single successful argument across the entire portfolio. With 2 pending office actions being the maximum for any one examiner, the prosecution effort remains highly fragmented.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (22%) |
| §112 only | 4 (12%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 19 (59%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEADMAN, DAVID J | 2 | 57.7% | +29.7% |
| MARTIN, RACHEL E | 2 | 54.2% | +54.0% |
| ZIMMER, MARC S | 2 | 79.4% | +16.1% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 2 | 78.7% | +11.4% |
| MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1 | 72.9% | +8.9% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.6% | +29.5% |
| DOUYON, LORNA M | 1 | 56.8% | +72.1% |
| SINGH, SATYENDRA K | 1 | 61.5% | +67.9% |
| WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1 | 86.3% | -20.1% |
| BAEK, BONG-SOOK | 1 | 41.6% | +69.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18710199 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING ISOCYANATOORGANOSILANES | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17914178 | COMPOSITIONS WHICH HAVE POLYESTER-POLYSILOXANE COPOLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 147d overdue |
| 18267785 | FOAM CONTROL COMPOSITION | BOYER, CHARLES I | 51d overdue |
| 18844412 | A COMPOSITION | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18841441 | IMPROVED CYSTEINE-PRODUCING STRAINS | STEADMAN, DAVID J | — |
| 18840103 | DEFOAMER FORMULATIONS CONTAINING TRIACYLGLYCERIDES | DOUYON, LORNA M | — |
| 18696698 | SILYLBENZOPINACOL RADICAL INITIATORS | BONAPARTE, AMY C | — |
| 18692350 | CROSSLINKABLE MASSES BASED ON ORGANYLOXY-GROUP-CONTAINING ORGANOPOLYSILOXANES | ZIMMER, MARC S | — |
| 18686454 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ELASTOMERIC PRINTING INK FOR CONTACTLESS PRINTING PROCESSES | NGUYEN, TRI V | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18032823 | POLYMERIC ALKYL SILICATES | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 15d overdue |
| 18864602 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING L-CYSTEIC ACID AND USE THEREOF | STEADMAN, DAVID J | — |
| 18844412 | A COMPOSITION | KRUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18841441 | IMPROVED CYSTEINE-PRODUCING STRAINS | STEADMAN, DAVID J | — |
| 18840103 | DEFOAMER FORMULATIONS CONTAINING TRIACYLGLYCERIDES | DOUYON, LORNA M | — |
| 17632936 | BACTERIAL STRAIN FOR RELEASING A RECOMBINANT PROTEIN IN A FERMENTATION METHOD | MARTIN, RACHEL E | — |
| 18712705 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TAURINE | SINGH, SATYENDRA K | — |
| 18700760 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | BAEK, BONG-SOOK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1765 | 5 |
| 1692 | 4 |
| 1763 | 4 |
| 1656 | 2 |
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1652 | 2 |
| 1657 | 2 |
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18992222 | PROCESS FOR BASE-CATALYZED REACTION OF SILICONES WITH HYDROTHERMAL OR SUPERCRITICAL WATER | MCAVOY, ELLEN M | 1771 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18864602 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING L-CYSTEIC ACID AND USE THEREOF | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1656 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18844412 | A COMPOSITION | KRUER, KEVIN R | 3635 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18841441 | IMPROVED CYSTEINE-PRODUCING STRAINS | STEADMAN, DAVID J | 1656 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18840103 | DEFOAMER FORMULATIONS CONTAINING TRIACYLGLYCERIDES | DOUYON, LORNA M | 1761 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 17632936 | BACTERIAL STRAIN FOR RELEASING A RECOMBINANT PROTEIN IN A FERMENTATION METHOD | MARTIN, RACHEL E | 1652 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18712705 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING TAURINE | SINGH, SATYENDRA K | 1657 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18710199 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING ISOCYANATOORGANOSILANES | WITHERSPOON, SIKARL A | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18700760 | ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME | BAEK, BONG-SOOK | 1611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18696698 | SILYLBENZOPINACOL RADICAL INITIATORS | BONAPARTE, AMY C | 1692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18692350 | CROSSLINKABLE MASSES BASED ON ORGANYLOXY-GROUP-CONTAINING ORGANOPOLYSILOXANES | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18686454 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ELASTOMERIC PRINTING INK FOR CONTACTLESS PRINTING PROCESSES | NGUYEN, TRI V | 1764 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18294548 | METAL-PLATED LAMINATES CONTAINING POLYORGANOSILOXANES | SERGENT, RABON A | 1765 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18578733 | DEFOAMING COMPOSITIONS WITH POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANES, ORGANOPOLYSILOXANE RESINS, ALKYL ETHERS AND WITHOUT 2,2,4-TRIMETHYL-1,3-DIISOBUTYRYLOXYPENTANE | PHILLIPS, SAVANNAH GRACE | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18578019 | USE OF FILM-FORMING ORGANOPOLYSILOXANES FOR REDUCING THE MICROFIBER RELEASE OF TEXTILES | COHEN, STEFANIE J | 1732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18571813 | ORGANYLOXYSILYL-TERMINATED POLYMERS ON THE BASIS OF 1,3-DIOXOLANE COPOLYMER BUILDING BLOCKS | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18569265 | HYDROPHOBIZING AND STRENGTHENING AGENT FOR CARPET FIBER BOARDS | STRAH, ELI D | 1782 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18284303 | STARCH HYBRID COPOLYMERS | BHUSHAN, KUMAR R | 1766 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18283028 | PROCESS OF REACTING SILICONE WITH HYDROTHERMAL OR SUPERCRITICAL WATER | WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA | 1765 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18280693 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANOPOLYSILOXANES WITH UNSATURATED GROUPS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18277398 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HYDROXYTYROSOL | MARTIN, RACHEL E | 1657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18277498 | ADDITIVE-CONTAINING BIOPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18267785 | FOAM CONTROL COMPOSITION | BOYER, CHARLES I | 1761 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18265692 | AN AQUEOUS POLYMER DISPERSION | EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI | 1762 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18038449 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CROSS-LINKABLE MATERIALS BASED ON ORGANYLOXYSILANE-TERMINATED POLYMERS | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 18035610 | METHOD FOR ENZYMATIC OXIDATION OF SULFINIC ACIDS TO SULFONIC ACIDS | RAMIREZ, DELIA M | 1652 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18032823 | POLYMERIC ALKYL SILICATES | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
| 18023748 | CROSS-LINKABLE COMPOSITIONS BASED ON ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS | BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH | 1765 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 18019845 | SILICON CARBON COMPOSITE PARTICLES | OTERO, KENNETH MAX | 1725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
| 17922033 | Polyvinyl-alcohol-stabilized (meth)acrylic acid ester polymers | USELDING, JOHN E | 1763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
| 17914178 | COMPOSITIONS WHICH HAVE POLYESTER-POLYSILOXANE COPOLYMERS | DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL | 1764 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
| 17780548 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORGANYLOXYSILANE-TERMINATED POLYMERS | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWacker Chemie AG has 32 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 17 art units and 28 examiners.
David J Steadman has the most, with 2 of Wacker Chemie AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
