Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 08, 2026

Hyundai Steel Company

15 pending office actions • 6 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due later (1)

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.

7
Hard (47%)
8
Medium (53%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (33%)
§102 only2 (13%)
Double-patenting + other1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (47%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
73% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
13% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
2
Business / Other
13% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 4 75.4% +34.8%
ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 2 40.7% +15.4%
EMPIE, NATHAN H 1 43.7% +42.9%
SU, XIAOWEI 1 71.4% +12.8%
CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1 50.6% +38.4%
PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1 53.0% +12.3%
SMITH, CATHERINE P 1 16.1% +15.8%
WANG, EUGENIA 1 54.3% +34.9%
O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1 65.5% +12.6%
WU, JENNY R 1 63.4% +16.2%

Hard Cases (8)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18288690 ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET COMPOSED OF (001) TEXTURE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR O'KEEFE, SEAN P 20d
18965209 HOT STAMPING COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 62d
18964817 HOT STAMPING PART ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D
18952903 ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT WELDABILITY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S
18933088 Manufacturing Method of Alloy Steel For Cold-Forging, Alloy Steel For Cold-Forging, and Gear For Cold-Forging PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA
18720159 STEEL SHEET FOR HOT PRESSING AND HOT-STAMPED PART MANUFACTURED USING SAME CHRISTY, KATHERINE A
18718283 MATERIAL FOR HOT STAMPING SMITH, CATHERINE P
18514852 BATTERY CASING FOR A VEHICLE WANG, EUGENIA

Interview Candidates (14)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18399879 HOT-STAMPED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 4d overdue
18288690 ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET COMPOSED OF (001) TEXTURE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR O'KEEFE, SEAN P 20d
18572431 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PLATED STEEL HAVING EXCELLENT PROCESSABILITY AND CORROSION RESISTANCE EMPIE, NATHAN H 28d
18965209 HOT STAMPING COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 62d
18861453 HOT-STAMPED PART AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME SU, XIAOWEI
18964817 HOT STAMPING PART ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D
18965090 HOT STAMPING PART AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D
18961422 ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CHRISTY, KATHERINE A

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1784 6
2853 2
1733 2
1712 1
1738 1
1734 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18572431 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PLATED STEEL HAVING EXCELLENT PROCESSABILITY AND CORROSION RESISTANCE EMPIE, NATHAN H 1712 §102 Final Rejection 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
18964817 HOT STAMPING PART ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 2853 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18965209 HOT STAMPING COMPONENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1784 §103§112Other Final Rejection 62d Pending Dec 02, 2024
18965090 HOT STAMPING PART AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D 2853 §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 02, 2024
18961422 ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH COLD-ROLLED STEEL SHEET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1784 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 26, 2024
18952903 ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH GALVANIZED STEEL SHEET WITH EXCELLENT WELDABILITY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR CARPENTER, JOSHUA S 1733 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 19, 2024
18933088 Manufacturing Method of Alloy Steel For Cold-Forging, Alloy Steel For Cold-Forging, and Gear For Cold-Forging PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA 1784 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18720159 STEEL SHEET FOR HOT PRESSING AND HOT-STAMPED PART MANUFACTURED USING SAME CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1784 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 14, 2024
18718283 MATERIAL FOR HOT STAMPING SMITH, CATHERINE P §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2024
18399879 HOT-STAMPED COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME CHRISTY, KATHERINE A 1784 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2023
18514852 BATTERY CASING FOR A VEHICLE WANG, EUGENIA §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 20, 2023
18288690 ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET COMPOSED OF (001) TEXTURE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR O'KEEFE, SEAN P 1738 §103§112 Final Rejection 20d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18079453 HOT STAMPING COMPONENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME WU, JENNY R 1733 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2022
18077702 HOT-STAMPED PART LIANG, ANTHONY M 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Dec 08, 2022

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