Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suncoke Technology and Development LLC has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split among 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. DEVINE, MOLLY K is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. With 4 distinct examiners each handling 1 action, the company's prosecution workload is evenly distributed across multiple examining groups.
This decentralized structure, featuring 4 pending office actions, requires a management strategy that can handle 4 different examiner styles. The involvement of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property is not concentrated in a single niche but is distributed across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Success for this portfolio depends on the ability to effectively engage with 4 different examiners across 4 separate examining groups.
The 1 to 1 ratio of pending actions to examiners prevents any single person's bias from dominating the portfolio. Instead, the company must manage 4 independent prosecution tracks, each potentially offering different challenges and opportunities. This variety can be beneficial for risk management, as it prevents a single difficult examiner from stalling the entire active portfolio of 4 pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.1% | +32.0% |
| PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1 | 64.3% | +43.8% |
| HINES, LATOSHA D | 1 | 51.4% | +21.6% |
| JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 1 | 73.9% | +20.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949426 | PELLETIZED PRODUCTS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | HINES, LATOSHA D | 22d |
| 18972005 | MILLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING MATERIALS WITH A PARTICULAR PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| 18955181 | EMISSIONS RECOVERY SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES, AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18882116 | RAILCARS FOR TRANSPORTING GRANULATED METALLIC UNITS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949426 | PELLETIZED PRODUCTS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | HINES, LATOSHA D | 22d |
| 18972005 | MILLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING MATERIALS WITH A PARTICULAR PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| 18955181 | EMISSIONS RECOVERY SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES, AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18882116 | RAILCARS FOR TRANSPORTING GRANULATED METALLIC UNITS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 1772 | 1 |
| 1771 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972005 | MILLING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING MATERIALS WITH A PARTICULAR PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3653 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18955181 | EMISSIONS RECOVERY SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES, AND ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | PILCHER, JONATHAN L | 1772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18949426 | PELLETIZED PRODUCTS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | HINES, LATOSHA D | 1771 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18882116 | RAILCARS FOR TRANSPORTING GRANULATED METALLIC UNITS, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSuncoke Technology and Development LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Molly K Devine has the most, with 1 of Suncoke Technology and Development LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
