Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Constellium Issoire is active in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 5 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, showing a varied engagement with the patent office. The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's material science innovations are being reviewed across multiple technical classifications. This breadth suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy covers a wide range of chemical processes or material compositions.
LUK, MAXINE TIBAY is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With a total of 5 pending office actions, the workload is spread among the 5 distinct examiners. This distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests a diverse prosecution landscape where each matter is subject to different examiner perspectives. For the practitioner, this necessitates a flexible approach to prosecution to navigate the specific tendencies of five different examiners simultaneously.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.4% | +26.3% |
| WALCK, BRIAN D | 1 | 58.7% | +26.9% |
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1 | 58.0% | +25.8% |
| OMORI, MARY I | 1 | 50.9% | +57.3% |
| DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 1 | 69.8% | +33.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649164 | ALUMINUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY PRODUCTS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | — |
| 18448998 | THICK PLATES MADE OF AL-CU-LI ALLOY WITH IMPROVED FATIGUE PROPERTIES | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17415590 | AL-ZN-CU-MG ALLOYS AND THEIR MANUFACTURING PROCESS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 49d overdue |
| 17051672 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ALUMINUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY HAVING IMPROVED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND IMPROVED TOUGHNESS | OMORI, MARY I | 43d overdue |
| 18649164 | ALUMINUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY PRODUCTS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | — |
| 18448998 | THICK PLATES MADE OF AL-CU-LI ALLOY WITH IMPROVED FATIGUE PROPERTIES | WALCK, BRIAN D | — |
| 16619195 | THIN SHEETS MADE OF ALUMINIUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY FOR AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE MANUFACTURE | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18649164 | ALUMINUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY PRODUCTS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18448998 | THICK PLATES MADE OF AL-CU-LI ALLOY WITH IMPROVED FATIGUE PROPERTIES | WALCK, BRIAN D | 1738 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 17415590 | AL-ZN-CU-MG ALLOYS AND THEIR MANUFACTURING PROCESS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2021 |
| 17051672 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ALUMINUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY HAVING IMPROVED COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND IMPROVED TOUGHNESS | OMORI, MARY I | 1784 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 29, 2020 |
| 16619195 | THIN SHEETS MADE OF ALUMINIUM-COPPER-LITHIUM ALLOY FOR AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE MANUFACTURE | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2019 |
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