Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Novelis Inc. maintains a robust portfolio with 11 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 11 distinct examiners, indicating a broad distribution of work within the USPTO. The prosecution effort spans 7 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of technical subject matter within the materials sector. This breadth suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy covers a wide array of chemical and material innovations.
Nathan L Laughlin is identified as the busiest examiner for Novelis Inc., though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution means that no single examiner holds a significant portion of the 11 pending office actions, requiring the legal team to manage 11 separate examiner relationships simultaneously. Practitioners must navigate 7 distinct art units, each potentially having different internal guidelines and technical focuses. Successfully managing these pending office actions requires a highly coordinated approach to maintain consistency across the art units involved in the Chemistry & Materials space.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 6 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 2 | 58.0% | +25.8% |
| LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 1 | 66.9% | +11.1% |
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 1 | 77.5% | +14.2% |
| LAWLER, JOHN VINCENT | 1 | 57.4% | +43.0% |
| ABOAGYE, MICHAEL | 1 | 75.4% | +37.8% |
| SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 1 | 55.1% | +12.5% |
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
| ZHENG, LOIS L | 1 | 67.6% | +13.0% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.4% | +7.8% |
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 63.9% | +6.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17904909 | SCRAP SUBMERGENCE DEVICE AND RELATED PROCESSES | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 22d overdue |
| 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 | — |
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 |
| 18645922 | METAL PRODUCTS HAVING IMPROVED SURFACE PROPERTIES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 42d |
| 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 | — |
| 18555576 | ROLL STEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TANDEM MILLS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | — |
| 18041297 | FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING | ZHENG, LOIS L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 4 |
| 3725 | 3 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18645922 | METAL PRODUCTS HAVING IMPROVED SURFACE PROPERTIES AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | SIDDIQUI, ADIL ABDUL WAJID | 1735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18555576 | ROLL STEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TANDEM MILLS | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
| 18041297 | FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT ALUMINUM ALLOY PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF MAKING | ZHENG, LOIS L | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 18157932 | METAL CASTING AND ROLLING LINE | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 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 |
| 17758859 | ENGINEERED CAN BODY STOCK AND CAN END STOCK AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME | LIANG, ANTHONY M | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 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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