Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kaiser Aluminum Warrick LLC currently faces 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the prosecution activity is divided among 3 distinct art units, showing a lack of concentration in a single administrative group. This suggests that the company's patent filings cover a range of sub-specialties within the broader chemistry field, requiring review from different specialized units across the patent office.
JACKSON, MONIQUE R is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for exactly 1 of the 3 total pending actions. This distribution suggests that each active matter is being reviewed independently by different personnel across different units. For the company, this means that prosecution outcomes are decoupled, as each case is subject to the standards and timelines of a different examiner and art unit within the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1 | 34.9% | +44.1% |
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.5% | +22.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531893 | High-Recycled Content Beverage End Stock | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16060863 | Metal Products And Methods For Forming Components Thereof | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 2d overdue |
| 18107727 | Aluminum Alloys Having a High Amount of Recycled Material | WU, JENNY R | 33d |
| 18531893 | High-Recycled Content Beverage End Stock | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18531893 | High-Recycled Content Beverage End Stock | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18107727 | Aluminum Alloys Having a High Amount of Recycled Material | WU, JENNY R | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 09, 2023 |
| 16060863 | Metal Products And Methods For Forming Components Thereof | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 08, 2018 |
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