1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Piovan S P A has 1 pending office action. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner, HOBSON, STEPHEN, and the profile lists 0 distinct art units.
HOBSON, STEPHEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The available data supports examiner-focused review, while no technology area is identified for this profile.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.0% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18970184 | Dehumidifying Plant Including a Device for Purifying a Process Fluid | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18970184 | Dehumidifying Plant Including a Device for Purifying a Process Fluid | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPiovan S P A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen Hobson has the most, with 1 of Piovan S P A's pending office actions.
