Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hochschule Rheinmain University Of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden Rüsselsheim has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This application is assigned to a distinct examiner and is being reviewed in a distinct art unit. This represents a highly focused prosecution effort for the university. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MERKLING, SALLY ANNE, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
With only 1 pending office action total, the university's current success in the Chemistry & Materials sector is tied to the evaluation of this distinct examiner. The involvement of just a distinct art unit indicates that the pending technology is categorized within a specific technical niche. This arrangement simplifies the university's prosecution strategy, as it only needs to address the concerns of MERKLING, SALLY ANNE within a single administrative unit of the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERKLING, SALLY ANNE | 1 | 62.4% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577999 | IMPROVED PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A POLAR PLATE | MERKLING, SALLY ANNE | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577999 | IMPROVED PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A POLAR PLATE | MERKLING, SALLY ANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577999 | IMPROVED PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A POLAR PLATE | MERKLING, SALLY ANNE | 1738 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHochschule Rheinmain University Of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden Rüsselsheim has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sally Anne Merkling has the most, with 1 of Hochschule Rheinmain University Of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden Rüsselsheim's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
