Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Freeport-Mcmoran Inc. has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter is concentrated within a single examiner and art unit, presenting a narrowly defined prosecution path.
KONERU, SUJAY is the identified examiner. The available profile supports a focused review of the application’s claims, examination record, and next response rather than a portfolio-wide coordination effort.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
| TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 1 | 8.3% | -12.5% |
| TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 63.3% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19537824 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEACHING A METAL-BEARING MATERIAL USING ALKYL THIOSULFONATES | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 18400920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONCILIATION IN MINE PLANNING | TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18347331 | CHAIN-INSTALL APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 42d |
| 19537824 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEACHING A METAL-BEARING MATERIAL USING ALKYL THIOSULFONATES | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19537824 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LEACHING A METAL-BEARING MATERIAL USING ALKYL THIOSULFONATES | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2026 |
| 18400920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONCILIATION IN MINE PLANNING | TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE | 3625 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18347331 | CHAIN-INSTALL APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 3726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFreeport-McMoRan Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Stephani A Hill has the most, with 1 of Freeport-McMoRan Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
