Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Rena Technologies GmbH has 1 pending office action currently under review. The prosecution profile includes 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. This data points to a very narrow scope of active patent office engagement, with no current activity distributed across different art units.
SMITH, NICHOLAS A is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the 1 pending office action total, consolidating the company's current workload under a single individual. This indicates that the company's active prosecution is currently focused on one specific matter.
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 | 63.5% | +31.7% |
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 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 | — |
| 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 | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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