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
Tenova S P A is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each of the company's current pending matters is being reviewed by a unique examiner in a unique technical division, providing a diversified prosecution landscape.
The busiest examiner, NEIBAUR, ROBERT F, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This reflects the even distribution of the 2 pending office actions across the 2 distinct examiners. For the company, this means that the outcome of one office action is unlikely to be influenced by the same examiner handling the other, as there is no overlap in the assigned personnel.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the company's medical devices and mechanical engineering portfolio is being evaluated by different specialized groups. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 highlights this lack of concentration. Practitioners should prepare for two distinct prosecution paths given the involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18330166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF GAS ATOMIZED METAL POWDERS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18330166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF GAS ATOMIZED METAL POWDERS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18330166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF GAS ATOMIZED METAL POWDERS | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTenova S P A has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Austin M Pollock has the most, with 1 of Tenova S P A's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
