Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ssab Technology AB currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates that each pending action is being reviewed by a different official across two different administrative divisions, showing a lack of examiner concentration.
BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation filings are being categorized into different technical specialties. Practitioners must manage three separate examiner relationships while navigating the standards of two different art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 1 | 72.0% | +22.5% |
| WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 53.6% | +22.5% |
| LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1 | 54.4% | +26.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709873 | A REPLACEABLE WEAR COMPONENT | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | — |
| 18706396 | A HOT-ROLLED STEEL STRIP PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17601234 | High-Hardness Steel Product and Method of Manufacturing the Same | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 21d |
| 18709873 | A REPLACEABLE WEAR COMPONENT | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | — |
| 18706396 | A HOT-ROLLED STEEL STRIP PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709873 | A REPLACEABLE WEAR COMPONENT | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
| 18706396 | A HOT-ROLLED STEEL STRIP PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION | WANG, NICHOLAS A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 17601234 | High-Hardness Steel Product and Method of Manufacturing the Same | LUK, VANESSA TIBAY | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Oct 04, 2021 |
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