Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Wacker Chemie AG

29 pending office actions • 14 art units • 28 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

29
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

23
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (23)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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%)
25
Medium (86%)
3
Easy (10%)
1
Unknown (3%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only23 (79%)
§102 only2 (7%)
§112 only3 (10%)
No statute on record1 (3%)

Industry Mix

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

29
Life Sciences
100% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

290 h
Manual time on pending OAs
58 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
102 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZIMMER, MARC S 2 79.3% +15.9%
MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM 1 79.1% +37.1%
YOUNG, WILLIAM D 1 53.9% +16.2%
MURATA, AUSTIN 1 60.3% +20.5%
MARTIN, RACHEL E 1 53.1% +57.2%
SERGENT, RABON A 1 54.2% +24.7%
BOYER, CHARLES I 1 70.8% +18.9%
LEE, RIP A 1 83.3% -4.3%
EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI 1 69.8% +14.0%
NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS 1 63.2% -5.1%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18267792 METHOD FOR RECOVERING RESIDUAL MONOMERS IN THE PREPARATION OF VINYL ESTER-ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS LEE, RIP A 17d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18265682 An Aqueous Polymer Dispersion EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI 70d overdue
18579579 PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON-CONTAINING MATERIALS IN A CASCADE REACTOR SYSTEM MURATA, AUSTIN 66d overdue
18267785 FOAM CONTROL COMPOSITION BOYER, CHARLES I 51d overdue
18276346 LIQUID 1,3-DIOXOLANE COPOLYMERS SERGENT, RABON A 43d overdue
17926144 CROSS-LINKABLE MASSES BASED ON ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS ZIMMER, MARC S 23d overdue
17631901 CROSSLINKABLE COMPOSITIONS BASED ON ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS ZIMMER, MARC S 23d overdue
18700843 ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SILICONE COMPOSITION WITH CARBON NANOTUBES AND CARBON BLACK YOUNG, WILLIAM D 8d overdue
18709817 METHOD FOR PREPARING L-CYSTEIC ACID MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1765 5
1762 3
1763 3
1767 3
1764 3
1761 2
1712 2
1725 2
1651 1
1657 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18709817 METHOD FOR PREPARING L-CYSTEIC ACID MONSHIPOURI, MARYAM 1651 Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending May 14, 2024
18700843 ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SILICONE COMPOSITION WITH CARBON NANOTUBES AND CARBON BLACK YOUNG, WILLIAM D 1761 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Apr 12, 2024
18579579 PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON-CONTAINING MATERIALS IN A CASCADE REACTOR SYSTEM MURATA, AUSTIN 1712 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18277398 METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HYDROXYTYROSOL MARTIN, RACHEL E 1657 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2023
18276346 LIQUID 1,3-DIOXOLANE COPOLYMERS SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §112 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2023
18267785 FOAM CONTROL COMPOSITION BOYER, CHARLES I 1761 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18267792 METHOD FOR RECOVERING RESIDUAL MONOMERS IN THE PREPARATION OF VINYL ESTER-ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS LEE, RIP A 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2023
18265682 An Aqueous Polymer Dispersion EGWIM, KELECHI CHIDI 1762 §102 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jun 07, 2023
18039980 MIXTURES CONTAINING OXAMIDE-FUNCTIONAL SILOXANES AND ORGANIC FIBERS NILAND, PATRICK DENNIS 1762 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2023
18038449 METHOD FOR PRODUCING CROSS-LINKABLE MATERIALS BASED ON ORGANYLOXYSILANE-TERMINATED POLYMERS LEONARD, MICHAEL L 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending May 24, 2023
18037365 PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SILICON-CONTAINING MATERIALS WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 93d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18032823 POLYMERIC ALKYL SILICATES PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 §112 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Apr 20, 2023
18032590 ADHESION PROMOTER BASED ON A VAE-BASED REDISPERSIBLE POLYMER POWDER AND A WETTING AGENT, ASPHALT BINDER AND ASPHALT MIXTURE INCLUDING THE SAME KOLB, KATARZYNA I 1767 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2023
18023748 CROSS-LINKABLE COMPOSITIONS BASED ON ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS BERRO, ADAM JOSEPH 1765 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Feb 28, 2023
18019845 SILICON CARBON COMPOSITE PARTICLES OTERO, KENNETH MAX 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Feb 06, 2023
18018588 Method for the prelithiation of a silicon-containing anode in a lithium-ion battery YUEN, JACKY 1735 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jan 30, 2023
18015980 CROSS-LINKABLE ORGANOSILOXANE-MODIFIED REACTION RESINS MOORE, MARGARET G 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
18012296 IMPROVED CYSTEINE-PRODUCING STRAINS EIX, EMILY FAY 1653 §112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Dec 22, 2022
17926144 CROSS-LINKABLE MASSES BASED ON ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS ZIMMER, MARC S 1765 §103 Non-Final OA 23d overdue Pending Nov 18, 2022
17923928 COMPOSITIONS CONTAINING COLORANTS, PROCESS FOR PREPARING SAID COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE WU, ANDREA 1763 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2022
17921992 Powder Paint Composition DAVIDSON IV, CULLEN LEE GARRETT 1767 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2022
17920409 MIXTURES CONTAINING SUPERABSORBERS USELDING, JOHN E 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 73d overdue Pending Oct 21, 2022
17914178 COMPOSITIONS WHICH HAVE POLYESTER-POLYSILOXANE COPOLYMERS DARLING, DEVIN MITCHELL 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Sep 23, 2022
17911207 Method for producing carbon-coated silicon particles MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D 1718 §103 Final Rejection 88d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2022
17631901 CROSSLINKABLE COMPOSITIONS BASED ON ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS ZIMMER, MARC S 1765 §102 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2022
17785057 SILICONE PARTICLES WITH A CROSS-LINKED CORE AND PREPARATION THEREOF LING, DORIS 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 14, 2022
17772297 HIGH SOLIDS PIGMENTED LATEX COMPOSITION COMPRISING A VINYL ACETATE ETHYLENE DISPERSION LIU, ZHEN 1767 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2022
17636800 SILICONE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE MOLDINGS BUTCHER, ROBERT T 1764 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 18, 2022
17613074 LITHIUM ION BATTERIES CULLEN, SEAN P 1725 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2021

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