Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Industrie De Nora S.p.A. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, indicating a broad range of individual review processes despite the shared technology classification. The busiest examiner in this group is BASS, DIRK R, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which shows more concentration in organizational divisions than in individual examiner assignments. With 5 distinct examiners handling 5 pending office actions, the company faces a diverse set of examination styles. This variety requires a strategy that accounts for the specific tendencies of 5 different individuals rather than a centralized approach with a single examiner.
The presence of 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's current patenting efforts in Chemistry & Materials are reaching multiple specialized subgroups within the patent office. Practitioners should note that no single examiner holds a majority of the workload, as the busiest examiner handles only 1 pending action. This distribution minimizes the impact of any single examiner's specific requirements on the overall portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASS, DIRK R | 1 | 62.4% | +22.6% |
| SMITH, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 63.6% | +31.5% |
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.3% |
| KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1 | 56.0% | +37.9% |
| JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1 | 34.8% | +41.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550698 | ELECTRODE FOR GAS EVOLUTION IN ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES | CHEN, BRET P | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18022374 | ELECTRODE WITH ENHANCED SHUTDOWN TOLERANCE | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 79d overdue |
| 18697637 | ELECTRODE FOR HYPOCHLORITE EVOLUTION | BASS, DIRK R | — |
| 18574593 | ELECTRODE FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF HYDROGEN | SMITH, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18550698 | ELECTRODE FOR GAS EVOLUTION IN ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 17292885 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF GAS | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1795 | 3 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697637 | ELECTRODE FOR HYPOCHLORITE EVOLUTION | BASS, DIRK R | 1779 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18574593 | ELECTRODE FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF HYDROGEN | SMITH, NICHOLAS A | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18550698 | ELECTRODE FOR GAS EVOLUTION IN ELECTROLYTIC PROCESSES | CHEN, BRET P | 1795 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18022374 | ELECTRODE WITH ENHANCED SHUTDOWN TOLERANCE | KEELING, ALEXANDER W | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 17292885 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROLYTIC EVOLUTION OF GAS | JEBUTU, MOFOLUWASO SIMILOLUWA | 1795 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialIndustrie De Nora S.p.A. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
Dirk R Bass has the most, with 1 of Industrie De Nora S.p.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
