Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH is currently overseeing 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners and are located in 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's current patenting activity is not concentrated in a specific niche but is instead spread across different technical specialties within the chemistry and materials field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SU, XIAOWEI, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The total of 2 pending office actions is distributed among 2 distinct examiners. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must account for the different requirements and tendencies of examiners in 2 distinct art units. The lack of a dominant examiner suggests a broader technical scope for the company's current intellectual property filings, requiring a versatile approach to managing office action responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL, STEPHANI A | 1 | 29.2% | +44.0% |
| SU, XIAOWEI | 1 | 71.9% | +12.6% |
| LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1 | 75.7% | +18.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553034 | STEEL STRIP MADE OF A HIGH-STRENGTH MULTIPHASE STEEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SUCH A STEEL STRIP | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 18547444 | HIGH-STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED FLAT STEEL PRODUCT HAVING HIGH LOCAL COLD FORMABILITY AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING SUCH A FLAT STEEL PRODUCT | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
| 17763449 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PRESS-HARDENED SHEET STEEL PART HAVING AN ALUMINIUM-BASED COATING, INITIAL SHEET METAL BLANK, AND A PRESS-HARDENED SHEET STEEL PART MADE THEREFROM | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553034 | STEEL STRIP MADE OF A HIGH-STRENGTH MULTIPHASE STEEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SUCH A STEEL STRIP | HILL, STEPHANI A | — |
| 18547444 | HIGH-STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED FLAT STEEL PRODUCT HAVING HIGH LOCAL COLD FORMABILITY AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING SUCH A FLAT STEEL PRODUCT | SU, XIAOWEI | — |
| 17763449 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PRESS-HARDENED SHEET STEEL PART HAVING AN ALUMINIUM-BASED COATING, INITIAL SHEET METAL BLANK, AND A PRESS-HARDENED SHEET STEEL PART MADE THEREFROM | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18553034 | STEEL STRIP MADE OF A HIGH-STRENGTH MULTIPHASE STEEL AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SUCH A STEEL STRIP | HILL, STEPHANI A | 1735 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18547444 | HIGH-STRENGTH HOT-ROLLED FLAT STEEL PRODUCT HAVING HIGH LOCAL COLD FORMABILITY AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING SUCH A FLAT STEEL PRODUCT | SU, XIAOWEI | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 17763449 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PRESS-HARDENED SHEET STEEL PART HAVING AN ALUMINIUM-BASED COATING, INITIAL SHEET METAL BLANK, AND A PRESS-HARDENED SHEET STEEL PART MADE THEREFROM | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSalzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Stephani A Hill has the most, with 1 of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
