Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tata Steel Ijmuiden B V currently has 5 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. Each of the 5 examiners is handling exactly one action, as evidenced by the busiest examiner, WANG, XIAOBEI, having 1 pending office action. This one-to-one ratio between actions and 5 distinct examiners suggests a decentralized examination process.
The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that the chemistry and materials filings are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups. This spread across 5 distinct examiners ensures that no single individual is overwhelmed by the company's current pending workload. Managing 5 pending office actions across 3 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for the different technical focuses of each specialized division within the office.
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 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 1 | 65.4% | +48.3% |
| POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | 1 | 51.3% | +36.1% |
| CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 1 | 70.0% | +39.4% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572529 | HIGH STRENGTH COATED DUAL PHASE STEEL STRIP AND METHOD TO PRODUCE IT | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099800 | HOT-ROLLED HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL STRIP | WANG, XIAOBEI | — |
| 18688076 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-STRENGTH TINPLATE AND TINPLATE PRODUCED THEREWITH | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 17791526 | LIQUID FEED FOR A BASIC OXYGEN FURNACE | HEVEY, JOHN 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17759577 | ULTRA LOW CARBON INTERSTITIAL FREE STEEL | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 26d |
| 19099800 | HOT-ROLLED HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL STRIP | WANG, XIAOBEI | — |
| 18688076 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-STRENGTH TINPLATE AND TINPLATE PRODUCED THEREWITH | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — |
| 18572529 | HIGH STRENGTH COATED DUAL PHASE STEEL STRIP AND METHOD TO PRODUCE IT | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | — |
| 17791526 | LIQUID FEED FOR A BASIC OXYGEN FURNACE | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1738 | 1 |
| 1733 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099800 | HOT-ROLLED HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL STRIP | WANG, XIAOBEI | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18688076 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HIGH-STRENGTH TINPLATE AND TINPLATE PRODUCED THEREWITH | POLLOCK, AUSTIN M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
| 18572529 | HIGH STRENGTH COATED DUAL PHASE STEEL STRIP AND METHOD TO PRODUCE IT | CARDA, DANIELLE MARIE | 1738 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 17759577 | ULTRA LOW CARBON INTERSTITIAL FREE STEEL | ALDAZ CERVANTES, MAYELA RENATA | 1733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jul 27, 2022 |
| 17791526 | LIQUID FEED FOR A BASIC OXYGEN FURNACE | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2022 |
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