Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters involve 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so the portfolio is dispersed across both examination personnel and technical groupings.
FREEDMAN, LAURA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution gives counsel a reason to manage the matters individually while preserving a common technical and claim-development framework.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREEDMAN, LAURA | 1 | 87.2% | +0.8% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.5% | +22.1% |
| DODDS, SCOTT | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| KITT, STEPHEN A | 1 | 54.7% | +38.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19091472 | VEHICLE IMPACT ABSORPTION SYSTEMS | FREEDMAN, LAURA | — |
| 18731237 | RESISTANCE OF STAINLESS STEEL TO LIQUID ALUMINUM ATTACK | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18407725 | GAS ASSISTED SNOUT INTERFACE REMOVAL | DODDS, SCOTT | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18731237 | RESISTANCE OF STAINLESS STEEL TO LIQUID ALUMINUM ATTACK | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| 18407725 | GAS ASSISTED SNOUT INTERFACE REMOVAL | DODDS, SCOTT | — |
| 18225347 | METHOD OF DROSS EXTRACTION USING HEATED NITROGEN AND ACCUMULATED PRESSURE DISPLACEMENT NOZZLES | KITT, STEPHEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3614 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091472 | VEHICLE IMPACT ABSORPTION SYSTEMS | FREEDMAN, LAURA | 3614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18731237 | RESISTANCE OF STAINLESS STEEL TO LIQUID ALUMINUM ATTACK | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2024 |
| 18407725 | GAS ASSISTED SNOUT INTERFACE REMOVAL | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2024 |
| 18225347 | METHOD OF DROSS EXTRACTION USING HEATED NITROGEN AND ACCUMULATED PRESSURE DISPLACEMENT NOZZLES | KITT, STEPHEN A | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Laura Freedman has the most, with 1 of Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
