Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rwth Aachen has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company's active prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a consolidated interaction with the patent office. This focused profile suggests that the university is currently prioritizing a specific chemical or material innovation. For the practitioner, this concentration means that the immediate success of the university's patent strategy depends on the resolution of this single pending matter, with no other active applications to diversify the prosecution risk across different art units or examiners.
WANG, NICHOLAS A is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the total 1 pending office action for the portfolio, placing the current prosecution outcome under the review of this specific examiner. Because the busiest examiner handles the only active action, their feedback and requirements are the sole focus for the university's legal efforts. A successful outcome will require a response strategy that is specifically tailored to this examiner's concerns, as there are no other pending actions to provide alternative opportunities for securing patent protection.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18578949 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPONENT BY MEANS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18578949 | IMPROVED METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COMPONENT BY MEANS OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRwth Aachen has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicholas A Wang has the most, with 1 of Rwth Aachen's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
