Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
6 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SMART & BIGGAR LP and Veolia WTS USA, Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The associated record includes 13155 career applications, an 80.99% resolved allowance rate, and an average of 3.23 office actions per allowance.
The small active docket can be reviewed against a substantial historical prosecution record. The allowance rate supplies an outcome measure, while the office-action average indicates that resolved matters commonly involve several examination exchanges. Practitioners should still assess the chemistry and materials claims individually when planning responses.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.3% | +38.0% |
| ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1 | 40.0% | +40.0% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.8% | +13.7% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.3% |
| SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1 | 84.7% | +17.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547660 | BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 2d overdue |
| 17791159 | ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 13d |
| 18569582 | CONTROL OF OZONE DOSING WITH BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 75d |
| 18695725 | UNDERDRAIN AND SEPTA FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547660 | BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 2d overdue |
| 17791159 | ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 13d |
| 18508983 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH PRIMARY TREATMENT AND MBR OR MABR-IFAS REACTOR | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 21d |
| 18569582 | CONTROL OF OZONE DOSING WITH BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 75d |
| 18552116 | HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 79d |
| 18695725 | UNDERDRAIN AND SEPTA FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| BL Technologies | 6 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 3 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18695725 | UNDERDRAIN AND SEPTA FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING | BL Technologies, Inc. | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1773 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18569582 | CONTROL OF OZONE DOSING WITH BIO-ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSOR | BL Technologies, Inc. | ROTONDI, CONNOR JON | 1779 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
| 18508983 | WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH PRIMARY TREATMENT AND MBR OR MABR-IFAS REACTOR | BL Technologies, Inc. | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18552116 | HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS | BL Technologies, Inc. | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1779 | §112 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18547660 | BYPASS CONTROL SLEEVE FOR SANITARY SPIRAL WOUND FILTER | BL Technologies, Inc. | MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1777 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 17791159 | ION EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF AQUEOUS LITHIUM SOLUTION | BL Technologies, Inc. | SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jul 06, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial81.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Smart & Biggar LP And Veolia Wts Usa, Inc. were allowed, across 13,155 applications in USPTO records.
3.23 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 6 examiners in 4 art units.
