Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nippon Steel Engineering Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Chemistry & Materials. The matter is before 1 examiner in 1 art unit, establishing one examination channel for the current response.
MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE is the listed busiest examiner. The practical focus is a direct assessment of that examiner’s issues within the assigned art-unit context.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17779384 | BLAST FURNACE OPERATION METHOD | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17779384 | BLAST FURNACE OPERATION METHOD | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNippon Steel Engineering Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Tima Michele Mcguthry Banks has the most, with 1 of Nippon Steel Engineering Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
