Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grenova Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners across 2 art units, so each action has a separate examination setting.
SPAMER, DONALD R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel should maintain consistent technical framing while addressing each examiner’s particular objections and cited material.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.4% | +32.3% |
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 66.5% | +63.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986043 | PIPETTE TIP WASHING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062426 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING AND STORAGE OF LABORATORY CONSUMABLES | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
| 18986043 | PIPETTE TIP WASHING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1799 | 1 |
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19062426 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STERILIZING AND STORAGE OF LABORATORY CONSUMABLES | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18986043 | PIPETTE TIP WASHING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1714 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGrenova Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Donald R Spamer has the most, with 1 of Grenova Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
