Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
UACJ Corporation is managing 7 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, indicating that one examiner is handling multiple cases for the company. The portfolio spans 5 distinct art units, showing a high level of technical diversity within its specialized field and requiring a broad range of legal expertise across different examining groups.
The busiest examiner for UACJ Corporation is MORILLO, JANELL COMBS, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This concentration of 2 actions with a single examiner provides a small opportunity for consistent advocacy across multiple applications. However, with 6 distinct examiners in total, the majority of the 7 pending office actions will require individualized approaches tailored to different examiner styles across the 5 art units. The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in chemistry and materials are being reviewed by several specialized teams, each potentially applying different examination standards.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 2 | 58.0% | +25.8% |
| DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | 1 | 87.5% | +14.3% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
| STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1 | 71.8% | +4.9% |
| ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1 | 76.4% | +7.8% |
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 60.6% | +37.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844759 | BUMPER ASSEMBLY | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701388 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR CAN LIDS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 28d |
| 18704303 | ALUMINUM ALLOY BRAZING SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — |
| 18567498 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR FORMING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | — |
| 18561402 | ALUMINUM ALLOY, ALUMINUM-ALLOY HOT-WORKED MATERIAL, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18701388 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR CAN LIDS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 28d |
| 18844759 | BUMPER ASSEMBLY | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | — |
| 19103893 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR CAN LID | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| 18567498 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR FORMING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | — |
| 18008745 | ALUMINUM ALLOY EXTRUDED MULTI-HOLE TUBE FOR HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LU, HAOTIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1733 | 2 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18844759 | BUMPER ASSEMBLY | DIGIOVANNANTONIO, DANIEL ROBERT | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19103893 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR CAN LID | HEVEY, JOHN A | 1735 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18704303 | ALUMINUM ALLOY BRAZING SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME | STILES, JACOB BENJAMIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18701388 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR CAN LIDS | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18693701 | ALUMINUM ALLOY BRAZING SHEET AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | SCHLEIS, DANIEL J | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18567498 | ALUMINUM ALLOY SHEET FOR FORMING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18561402 | ALUMINUM ALLOY, ALUMINUM-ALLOY HOT-WORKED MATERIAL, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | ROE, JESSEE RANDALL | 1759 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18008745 | ALUMINUM ALLOY EXTRUDED MULTI-HOLE TUBE FOR HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | LU, HAOTIAN | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
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