Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Howmet Aerospace has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed among 10 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing that the portfolio reaches across multiple examination groups rather than remaining within one technical unit. The one-to-one relationship between pending matters and examiners also indicates that each matter currently has an individual examiner assignment.
KRUPICKA, ADAM C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries a larger identified share of the docket, so prosecution management should emphasize matter-specific preparation instead of relying on a single examiner strategy. The spread across art units also supports separate tracking of procedural practices and technical focus for each group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1 | 62.1% | +27.0% |
| HARRIS, ZACHARY PRATT | 1 | — | — |
| LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1 | 75.7% | +18.1% |
| SU, XIAOWEI | 1 | 71.9% | +12.6% |
| SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1 | 71.9% | +5.3% |
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.5% | +26.3% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.5% | +7.8% |
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1 | 58.2% | +26.1% |
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16708117 | THICK WROUGHT 7XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | HILL, STEPHANI A | 133d overdue |
| 17336859 | 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 49d overdue |
| 18417434 | NEW 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 31d overdue |
| 19119627 | CLAD COMPOSITES, ARTICLES FORMED FROM CLAD COMPOSITES, METHODS OF FORMING CLAD COMPOSITES, AND METHODS OF FORMING ARTICLES | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | — |
| 18435464 | METHODS OF PRODUCING 2XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16708117 | THICK WROUGHT 7XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | HILL, STEPHANI A | 133d overdue |
| 17336859 | 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 49d overdue |
| 18135553 | 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 22d overdue |
| 16829054 | Wheel Having a Stiffening Rib | KOTTER, KIP T | 2d overdue |
| 19119627 | CLAD COMPOSITES, ARTICLES FORMED FROM CLAD COMPOSITES, METHODS OF FORMING CLAD COMPOSITES, AND METHODS OF FORMING ARTICLES | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | — |
| 18947104 | NEW SCRAP-BASED ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | — |
| 18435464 | METHODS OF PRODUCING 2XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 3 |
| 1733 | 3 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119627 | CLAD COMPOSITES, ARTICLES FORMED FROM CLAD COMPOSITES, METHODS OF FORMING CLAD COMPOSITES, AND METHODS OF FORMING ARTICLES | KRUPICKA, ADAM C | 1784 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
| 19094534 | WIRE MANAGEMENT FOR FENESTRATION SYSTEM FRAME PROFILES | HARRIS, ZACHARY PRATT | 3635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18947104 | NEW SCRAP-BASED ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1784 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18435464 | METHODS OF PRODUCING 2XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | SU, XIAOWEI | 1733 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18417434 | NEW 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18135553 | 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2023 |
| 17989110 | NEW ALUMINUM ALLOYS HAVING BISMUTH AND/OR TIN | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17336859 | 6XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2021 |
| 16829054 | Wheel Having a Stiffening Rib | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2020 |
| 16708117 | THICK WROUGHT 7XXX ALUMINUM ALLOYS, AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 133d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialHowmet Aerospace has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Adam C Krupicka has the most, with 1 of Howmet Aerospace's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
