Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Refratechnik Holding GmbH has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The actions involve 2 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, indicating examiner-level distribution within a common art unit setting.
DEVINE, MOLLY K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the shared art unit context when preparing responses while preserving separate examiner-specific analysis.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.1% | +32.0% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994709 | SORTING METHOD AND METHOD FOR RECYCLING MOLDED REFRACTORY PRODUCTS, PREFERABLY STONES, AND THEIR USE | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| 18692665 | HYBRID PROCESS AND HYBRID DEVICE FOR LOW-CO2 OR FOR CO2-FREE HIGH-TEMPERATURE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE THERMAL TREATMENT OR PRODUCTION OF INORGANIC MATERIALS | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994709 | SORTING METHOD AND METHOD FOR RECYCLING MOLDED REFRACTORY PRODUCTS, PREFERABLY STONES, AND THEIR USE | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| 18692665 | HYBRID PROCESS AND HYBRID DEVICE FOR LOW-CO2 OR FOR CO2-FREE HIGH-TEMPERATURE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE THERMAL TREATMENT OR PRODUCTION OF INORGANIC MATERIALS | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994709 | SORTING METHOD AND METHOD FOR RECYCLING MOLDED REFRACTORY PRODUCTS, PREFERABLY STONES, AND THEIR USE | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1743 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18692665 | HYBRID PROCESS AND HYBRID DEVICE FOR LOW-CO2 OR FOR CO2-FREE HIGH-TEMPERATURE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE THERMAL TREATMENT OR PRODUCTION OF INORGANIC MATERIALS | JENNISON, BRIAN W | 3761 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRefratechnik Holding GmbH 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 Refratechnik Holding GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
