Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Altek Europe Limited currently manages 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring that the current prosecution dialogue is concentrated with a single individual. The portfolio is also restricted to 1 distinct art unit, which limits the procedural variations the company might encounter across different patent office divisions. This concentration suggests that the company is focusing its intellectual property efforts on a specific technological domain.
The busiest examiner for this company is SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL, who is managing 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the full scope of the company's current active prosecution. This singular focus allows the applicant to tailor their legal arguments specifically to the expectations of SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL. The alignment of 1 pending action with 1 art unit and 1 examiner creates a straightforward administrative path for the company. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of this examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 64.2% | +7.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17935845 | IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO STIRRING OF MOLTEN METALS | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAltek Europe Limited has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Moriah Simone Mcmil Smoot has the most, with 1 of Altek Europe Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
