Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
Double-patenting only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
25% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
1
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL 1 63.7% +5.6%
MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR 1 100.0% +0.0%
TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 1 11.1% -16.7%
TRAVERS, MATTHEW P 1 63.1% +44.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18891407 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEAP LEACH PAD IRRIGATION LINE PLACEMENT MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18400920 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONCILIATION IN MINE PLANNING TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18347331 CHAIN-INSTALL APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TRAVERS, MATTHEW P 42d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1733 1
3625 1
3726 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19336322 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING DEEP RAFFINATE INJECTION BASED ON COLUMN TEST PREDICTIVE MODEL SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL 1733 DP Final Rejection Pending Sep 22, 2025
18891407 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEAP LEACH PAD IRRIGATION LINE PLACEMENT MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 20, 2024
18400920 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONCILIATION IN MINE PLANNING TORRES CHANZA, GABRIEL JOSE 3625 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 29, 2023
18347331 CHAIN-INSTALL APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TRAVERS, MATTHEW P 3726 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jul 05, 2023

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