Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novelis Inc. has 13 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. These matters are assigned to 10 distinct examiners across 6 distinct art units, so the portfolio has meaningful examiner dispersion and a narrower art-unit spread than examiner spread.
TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration at the leading examiner suggests that counsel should preserve centralized portfolio monitoring while tailoring responses to several separate examination relationships.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 5 (38%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (54%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 2 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 2 | 76.5% | +7.8% |
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 2 | 58.2% | +26.1% |
| LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 1 | 66.8% | +11.5% |
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 1 | 77.6% | +14.3% |
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 57.1% | +43.4% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.7% |
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 1 | 67.6% | +13.0% |
| LEONG, NATHAN T | 1 | 71.4% | +23.9% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 64.2% | +7.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904909 | SCRAP SUBMERGENCE DEVICE AND RELATED PROCESSES | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 22d overdue |
| 19104132 | VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARSH PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS DURING METAL PROCESSING | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18832102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREADING IN A ROLLING MILL | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
| 18668608 | EXTRUSION SINGLE LAYER COATINGS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18705465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID SUBSTRATE COOLING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — |
| 18698118 | HEAT TREATED ALUMINUM SHEETS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING | ZHENG, LOIS L | — |
| 18556164 | LAMINATED CAN END STOCK | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15787098 | HIGHLY FORMABLE AUTOMOTIVE ALUMINUM SHEET WITH REDUCED OR NO SURFACE ROPING AND A METHOD OF PREPARATION | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 43d overdue |
| 19104132 | VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARSH PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS DURING METAL PROCESSING | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18832102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREADING IN A ROLLING MILL | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
| 18726538 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECOATER CYCLONE DUST AND RELATED METHODS | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | — |
| 18668608 | EXTRUSION SINGLE LAYER COATINGS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | — |
| 18705465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID SUBSTRATE COOLING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | — |
| 18698118 | HEAT TREATED ALUMINUM SHEETS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING | ZHENG, LOIS L | — |
| 18556164 | LAMINATED CAN END STOCK | LEONG, NATHAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 4 |
| 1733 | 4 |
| 1759 | 2 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19104132 | VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARSH PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS DURING METAL PROCESSING | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18832102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREADING IN A ROLLING MILL | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18726538 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR DECOATER CYCLONE DUST AND RELATED METHODS | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18668608 | EXTRUSION SINGLE LAYER COATINGS | LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1787 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18705465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID SUBSTRATE COOLING | ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18698118 | HEAT TREATED ALUMINUM SHEETS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18556164 | LAMINATED CAN END STOCK | LEONG, NATHAN T | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18555576 | ROLL STEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TANDEM MILLS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18157932 | METAL CASTING AND ROLLING LINE | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17995431 | ALUMINUM ALLOYS PRODUCED FROM RECYCLED ALUMINUM ALLOY SCRAP | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2022 |
| 17904909 | SCRAP SUBMERGENCE DEVICE AND RELATED PROCESSES | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Aug 24, 2022 |
| 17904307 | CONTROL OF ALUMINUM ALLOY MICROSTRUCTURE FOR IMPROVED CORROSION RESISTANCE AND BONDING PERFORMANCE | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2022 |
| 15787098 | HIGHLY FORMABLE AUTOMOTIVE ALUMINUM SHEET WITH REDUCED OR NO SURFACE ROPING AND A METHOD OF PREPARATION | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2017 |
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Start Free TrialNovelis Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 10 examiners.
Edward Thomas Tolan has the most, with 2 of Novelis Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
