Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Constellium Bowling Green LLC manages a patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently contains 1 pending office action. This activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's current filings are being processed within a specific technical category at the patent office. This concentration suggests that the research and development efforts are focused on a particular area of chemistry or materials science.
The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, ZHENG, LOIS L. This individual is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio and is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, all current patent office feedback is centralized under ZHENG, LOIS L. This arrangement allows the applicant to focus on the specific examination style and requirements of a single official. The outcome of the current prosecution depends on the interaction between the company and this one examiner within the Chemistry & Materials field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 1 | 67.6% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17423394 | CONTINUOUS SURFACE TREATMENT FOR COILS MADE OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS SHEETS | ZHENG, LOIS L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17423394 | CONTINUOUS SURFACE TREATMENT FOR COILS MADE OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS SHEETS | ZHENG, LOIS L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17423394 | CONTINUOUS SURFACE TREATMENT FOR COILS MADE OF ALUMINUM ALLOYS SHEETS | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialConstellium Bowling Green LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lois L Zheng has the most, with 1 of Constellium Bowling Green LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
