Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wex Companies Inc. Dba Septic Check currently has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This represents a prosecution profile where the company's active portfolio is managed by a single individual within a specialized group at the patent office.
ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the pending action. Because there is only a single pending office action total, this examiner's decisions will determine the success of the company's current prosecution efforts. The alignment of an examiner and an art unit for the action indicates a prosecution path for the company's current interests.
For a practitioner, this data suggests that the company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to a single point of contact. The matching counts between pending actions, examiners, and art units leaves no room for comparative analysis of examiner behavior within this specific portfolio. The focus on the Chemistry & Materials technology area is represented by this active case and its assigned examiner. This concentration requires a strategy focused on the specific tendencies of the busiest examiner.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ | 1 | 80.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913326 | Waste water treatment system | ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18913326 | Waste water treatment system | ABDEL LATIF, MAHMOUD MOTAZ | 1773 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWex Companies Inc. Dba Septic Check has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mahmoud Motaz Abdel Latif has the most, with 1 of Wex Companies Inc. Dba Septic Check's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
