Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rimac Automobiles Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio currently active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The data indicates 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio. This specific office action is being handled by HA, STEVEN S, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case under review.
The organizational structure of this portfolio is characterized by minimal diversity in its examination path, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration means that the 1 pending office action represents the total current workload and the primary focus for the applicant in this technology area. Practitioners should note that the prosecution experience is currently limited to the oversight of HA, STEVEN S within the art unit. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners suggests a highly specific technical focus or an early stage of portfolio development where the 1 pending action dictates the trajectory in Chemistry & Materials. The strategy should prioritize a deep understanding of the examiner's past allowances and rejection patterns, as there are no other active cases to offset a negative outcome in this single 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.4% | +29.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18079168 | COOLING PLATE OF A BATTERY MODULE OF A TRACTION BATTERY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND BATTERY MODULE | HA, STEVEN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18079168 | COOLING PLATE OF A BATTERY MODULE OF A TRACTION BATTERY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND BATTERY MODULE | HA, STEVEN S | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialRimac Automobiles Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven S Ha has the most, with 1 of Rimac Automobiles Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
