Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nucor Corporation has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. JOHN E BARGERO is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. The distribution across 3 art units and 3 examiners indicates a diverse set of pending matters for the company within the broader mechanical engineering field.
The involvement of 3 distinct examiners for the pending office actions means that no unique individual has a concentrated influence over the company's current prosecution. Furthermore, the fact that these actions are spread across 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's applications cover a variety of technical sub-specialties. BARGERO's workload is shared equally with the other examiners, as each is responsible for 1 pending office action. Practitioners must be prepared to manage three separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner preferences and art unit standards, requiring a versatile legal strategy.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KENNY, DANIEL J | 1 | 61.8% | +21.9% |
| PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1 | 52.5% | +8.4% |
| YANG, JIE | 1 | 62.6% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783060 | COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM | KENNY, DANIEL J | 30d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18783060 | COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM | KENNY, DANIEL J | 30d overdue |
| 17168977 | MULTIPHASE, COLD-ROLLED ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STEEL | YANG, JIE | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18783060 | COLD FORMED BEAM FOR STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF FORMING THE COLD FORMED BEAM | KENNY, DANIEL J | 3633 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18385513 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF REDUCING NON-FERROUS METAL CONTENT OF SCRAP STEEL | PULLEN, NIKOLAS TAKUYA | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 17168977 | MULTIPHASE, COLD-ROLLED ULTRA-HIGH STRENGTH STEEL | YANG, JIE | 1734 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 05, 2021 |
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