Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hindalco Industries Limited currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. However, both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a unified technical focus for the company's current patent applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BERNS, DANIEL J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between BERNS, DANIEL J and the other distinct examiner. This distribution requires the applicant to address different examiner styles while operating within the same technical framework of 1 distinct art unit. The focus on Chemistry & Materials ensures that the prosecution remains within a consistent field of expertise.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the company has a manageable prosecution workload. The fact that both examiners are in a single art unit is beneficial, as it likely means they follow similar procedural rules and technical standards. Practitioners can focus on the specific feedback from BERNS, DANIEL J and his colleague to advance these filings. This concentrated environment in the Chemistry & Materials sector allows for a clear and targeted approach to securing patent rights.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERNS, DANIEL J | 1 | 73.1% | +34.1% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833087 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A HIGH-PURITY ALUMINA | BERNS, DANIEL J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377910 | GREEN CARBON PASTE COMPRISING A GREEN BINDER BASED ON GLUCOSE AND GLYCEROL AS A TAMPING/RAMMING PASTE | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 7d |
| 18833087 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A HIGH-PURITY ALUMINA | BERNS, DANIEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833087 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A HIGH-PURITY ALUMINA | BERNS, DANIEL J | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18377910 | GREEN CARBON PASTE COMPRISING A GREEN BINDER BASED ON GLUCOSE AND GLYCEROL AS A TAMPING/RAMMING PASTE | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
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