Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Tempel Steel Company currently has 1 pending office action within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner, MCNALLY, DANIEL, operating within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated docket means that the company's immediate patent strategy in Chemistry & Materials is entirely dependent on the interactions with this single official. The presence of this single active matter suggests a period of low intensity or a highly selective filing strategy.
For the practitioner, the fact that 1 distinct examiner manages the case allows for a very focused advocacy approach. There is no need to reconcile conflicting feedback from multiple departments, as only 1 distinct art unit is involved. MCNALLY, DANIEL is the busiest examiner by default, holding a workload of 1 pending office action. This alignment within the Chemistry & Materials sector ensures that the prosecution remains localized within a single technical and administrative channel at the patent office.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1 | 68.2% | +13.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046120 | IN-LINE ADHESIVE PROCESS FOR LAMINATED CORES | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046120 | IN-LINE ADHESIVE PROCESS FOR LAMINATED CORES | MCNALLY, DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19046120 | IN-LINE ADHESIVE PROCESS FOR LAMINATED CORES | MCNALLY, DANIEL | 1746 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialTempel Steel Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Daniel Mcnally has the most, with 1 of Tempel Steel Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
