Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Refractory Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The cases are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, producing separate prosecution tracks.
DEVINE, MOLLY K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate overall claim strategy while preparing examiner-specific responses for the two mechanical assignments.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.1% | +32.0% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749247 | Method for maintenance of a sliding closure at the outlet of a metallurgical vessel | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 34d |
| 19128166 | METHOD AND EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF USED REFRACTORY MATERIAL | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19128166 | METHOD AND EXAMINATION DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF USED REFRACTORY MATERIAL | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3653 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 18749247 | Method for maintenance of a sliding closure at the outlet of a metallurgical vessel | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRefractory Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Molly K Devine has the most, with 1 of Refractory Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
