Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
The Doe Run Resources Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific area of technical review for the company's current filings. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL, who is assigned to the pending matter. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a specialized legal approach tailored to specific technical standards.
SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. As the company has only 1 pending office action, this examiner oversees the entire current pending workload. The presence of 1 distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution environment. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to addressing the specific concerns of SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL and the technical standards of the assigned art unit to move the application forward.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1 | 64.2% | +7.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115373 | Hydrometallurgical Processes For Battery Recycling | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18115373 | Hydrometallurgical Processes For Battery Recycling | SMOOT, MORIAH SIMONE MCMIL | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Doe Run Resources Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Moriah Simone Mcmil Smoot has the most, with 1 of The Doe Run Resources Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.