Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rena Technologies GmbH has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit, providing a concentrated examination setting.
SMITH, NICHOLAS A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can direct its analysis to the examiner’s treatment of the relevant materials claims and the most defensible distinctions from the cited art.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 63.6% | +31.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579718 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENRICHING A SUBSTRATE WITH AN ALKALI METAL, AND ELECTROLYTE | SMITH, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579718 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENRICHING A SUBSTRATE WITH AN ALKALI METAL, AND ELECTROLYTE | SMITH, NICHOLAS A | 1752 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRena Technologies GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicholas A Smith has the most, with 1 of Rena Technologies GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
