Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nucor Corporation

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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 (4)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (80%)
1
Easy (20%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§112 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
20% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHAU, ALAIN 1 80.2% +26.7%
KENNY, DANIEL J 1 61.6% +21.7%
HERRING, BRENT W 1 68.9% +16.8%
YANG, JIE 1 62.2% +19.0%
GLESSNER, BRIAN E 1 33.8% +30.9%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19095741 ATTENUATED COMBUSTION FOR CLEAN POWER AND HYDROGEN CAPTURE CHAU, ALAIN 127d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19095741 ATTENUATED COMBUSTION FOR CLEAN POWER AND HYDROGEN CAPTURE CHAU, ALAIN 127d overdue
16562914 APPARATUS FOR MAKING THIN FLOOR PLATE AND A THIN FLOOR PLATE GLESSNER, BRIAN E 125d overdue
18783060 COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM KENNY, DANIEL J 30d overdue
18439113 JOIST TIE USED IN STRUCTURAL DECKING SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING HERRING, BRENT W 2d overdue
17168977 MULTIPHASE, COLD-ROLLED ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STEEL YANG, JIE 20d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3633 3
3741 1
1734 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19095741 ATTENUATED COMBUSTION FOR CLEAN POWER AND HYDROGEN CAPTURE CHAU, ALAIN 3741 §103 Final Rejection 127d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2025
18783060 COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM KENNY, DANIEL J 3633 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2024
18439113 JOIST TIE USED IN STRUCTURAL DECKING SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING HERRING, BRENT W 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
17168977 MULTIPHASE, COLD-ROLLED ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STEEL YANG, JIE 1734 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Feb 05, 2021
16562914 APPARATUS FOR MAKING THIN FLOOR PLATE AND A THIN FLOOR PLATE GLESSNER, BRIAN E 3633 §103 Final Rejection 125d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2019

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