Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Big River Steel LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio of actions to examiners and art units indicates that each pending matter is being handled in a unique examination environment.
KRUPICKA, ADAM C is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because each of the 2 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the portfolio. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests a range of chemical and material technologies are currently under review.
With 2 pending office actions spread across 2 distinct art units, the company must adapt to the specific nuances of 2 different examination groups. This distribution within the Chemistry & Materials area highlights the breadth of the company's current patent applications despite the small number of pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1 | 62.1% | +27.0% |
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825925 | ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED STEEL WITH TOUGHNESS AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 59d overdue |
| 18196573 | NANO-PRECIPITATION STRENGTHENED COLD-ROLLED BATCH ANNEALED HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOY STEEL SHEET | WU, JENNY R | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18825925 | ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED STEEL WITH TOUGHNESS AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 59d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18196573 | NANO-PRECIPITATION STRENGTHENED COLD-ROLLED BATCH ANNEALED HIGH STRENGTH LOW ALLOY STEEL SHEET | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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