Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 1 client • 6 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SMART & BIGGAR LP and Veolia WTS USA, Inc. operate in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 13116 career applications. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 80.99. Its prosecution process averages 3.23 avg office actions per allowance.
There are 5 pending office actions currently active. The 80.99 resolved allowance rate pct and 3.23 avg office actions per allowance are based on the firm's total of 13116 career applications. These metrics provide a data-driven profile of the firm's work in its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 2 | 65.8% | +28.0% |
| DRODGE, JOSEPH W | 1 | 78.2% | +38.2% |
| FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1 | 47.9% | +16.1% |
| ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 1 | 59.9% | +13.6% |
| MENON, KRISHNAN S | 1 | 59.7% | +11.7% |
| SMARI, ABDUL-RAHMAN YUSUF WALEED | 1 | 86.2% | +15.8% |
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 |
| 18695725 | UNDERDRAIN AND SEPTA FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18572638 | NANOFILTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
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 7 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 |
| 18552116 | HOLLOW FIBER IMMERSED MEMBRANE MODULE AND CASSETTE WITH HIGH PACKING DENSITY AND VERTICAL PERMEATE PORT CONNECTIONS | ORME, PATRICK JAMES | 79d |
| 18733490 | PRETREATMENT TO REMOVE AMMONIA FROM HIGH STRENGTH WASTEWATER WITH MEMRBANE AERATED BIOFILM SIDESTREAM | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | — |
| 18695725 | UNDERDRAIN AND SEPTA FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18572638 | NANOFILTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| BL Technologies | 7 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1779 | 3 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| 1777 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733490 | PRETREATMENT TO REMOVE AMMONIA FROM HIGH STRENGTH WASTEWATER WITH MEMRBANE AERATED BIOFILM SIDESTREAM | BL Technologies, Inc. | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18695725 | UNDERDRAIN AND SEPTA FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING | BL Technologies, Inc. | DRODGE, JOSEPH W | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 | |
| 18572638 | NANOFILTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | BL Technologies, Inc. | FITZSIMMONS, ALLISON G | 1773 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 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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