Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
11 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyundai Steel Company has 10 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 10 examiners and 8 art units, indicating broad examination coverage across the portfolio.
EMPIE, NATHAN H is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The workload is dispersed, so no single examiner relationship can substitute for portfolio-wide docket oversight.
Counsel should coordinate recurring technical positions across the eight art-unit settings while preserving matter-specific responses. Centralized tracking can identify common claim or prior-art issues, but each action should be evaluated against its assigned examiner and examination context.
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 (27%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 2 | 75.4% | +34.2% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.4% | +43.3% |
| SU, XIAOWEI | 1 | 71.9% | +12.6% |
| ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 1 | 40.8% | +15.5% |
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
| SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1 | 16.1% | +16.8% |
| FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1 | 73.6% | +24.8% |
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 1 | 67.6% | +13.0% |
| WANG, EUGENIA | 1 | 54.6% | +34.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005560 | MULTI-STAGE PRESS FORMING METHOD OF PLATE AND PLATE FORMING MOLD DEVICE | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | — |
| 18964817 | HOT STAMPING PART | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | — |
| 18788877 | SECTION STEEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 18718283 | MATERIAL FOR HOT STAMPING | SMITH, CATHERINE P | — |
| 18654563 | SEPARATOR FOR FUEL CELL WITH METAL COATING LAYER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | — |
| 18514852 | BATTERY CASING FOR A VEHICLE | WANG, EUGENIA | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572431 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PLATED STEEL HAVING EXCELLENT PROCESSABILITY AND CORROSION RESISTANCE | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 28d |
| 18400580 | ALUMINUM COATED BLANK AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ZHENG, LOIS L | 34d |
| 18861453 | HOT-STAMPED PART AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
| 18964817 | HOT STAMPING PART | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | — |
| 18961422 | ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18788877 | SECTION STEEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 18720159 | STEEL SHEET FOR HOT PRESSING AND HOT-STAMPED PART MANUFACTURED USING SAME | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | — |
| 18718283 | MATERIAL FOR HOT STAMPING | SMITH, CATHERINE P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 3 |
| 1735 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 1728 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572431 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PLATED STEEL HAVING EXCELLENT PROCESSABILITY AND CORROSION RESISTANCE | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18861453 | HOT-STAMPED PART AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | SU, XIAOWEI | 1784 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19005560 | MULTI-STAGE PRESS FORMING METHOD OF PLATE AND PLATE FORMING MOLD DEVICE | ISSA, JUEVARA SAOOD | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18964817 | HOT STAMPING PART | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18961422 | ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18788877 | SECTION STEEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18720159 | STEEL SHEET FOR HOT PRESSING AND HOT-STAMPED PART MANUFACTURED USING SAME | CHRISTY, KATHERINE A | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18718283 | MATERIAL FOR HOT STAMPING | SMITH, CATHERINE P | 1735 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18654563 | SEPARATOR FOR FUEL CELL WITH METAL COATING LAYER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | FRANCIS, ADAM JOSEPH | 1728 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18400580 | ALUMINUM COATED BLANK AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 29, 2023 |
| 18514852 | BATTERY CASING FOR A VEHICLE | WANG, EUGENIA | 1759 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHyundai Steel Company has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 10 examiners.
Katherine A Christy has the most, with 2 of Hyundai Steel Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
