Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rio Tinto Alcan International Limited has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters span 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating that current prosecution is distributed across multiple examination settings.
FIORITO, JAMES A is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Portfolio management should account for separate examiner assignments rather than assume that one response approach will address every pending action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1 | 81.6% | +2.8% |
| FIORITO, JAMES A | 1 | 71.6% | +28.0% |
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1 | 58.2% | +26.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17792610 | MATERIAL TREATMENT APPARATUS AND PROCESS USING HYDROGEN | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17784688 | High Strength Aluminum Alloys | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 51d overdue |
| 17792576 | CALCINATION APPARATUS AND PROCESS USING HYDROGEN | FIORITO, JAMES A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17792610 | MATERIAL TREATMENT APPARATUS AND PROCESS USING HYDROGEN | MCGUTHRY BANKS, TIMA MICHELE | 1700 | §112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17792576 | CALCINATION APPARATUS AND PROCESS USING HYDROGEN | FIORITO, JAMES A | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
| 17784688 | High Strength Aluminum Alloys | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Jun 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialRio Tinto Alcan International Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Tima Michele Mcguthry Banks has the most, with 1 of Rio Tinto Alcan International Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
