Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Western Alliance Bank has 1 pending office action in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The presence of a distinct art unit indicates that the bank's current patent activity is restricted to a specific technical domain. This suggests a targeted approach to intellectual property, where the bank is seeking protection for innovations that fall within a specific set of technical classifications.
LAURA B FIGG is the busiest examiner for the bank, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner handles the volume of pending office actions for the company. With a pending office action, the bank's current prosecution workload is minimal. The interaction with the examiner will determine the immediate future of the bank's patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area, as no other actions are currently pending. Practitioners should utilize this period of low activity to ensure that the pending claims are perfectly aligned with the bank's broader commercial objectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIGG, LAURA B | 1 | 58.7% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502332 | EMBOSSED STEEL SHEETS | FIGG, LAURA B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18502332 | EMBOSSED STEEL SHEETS | FIGG, LAURA B | 1781 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWestern Alliance Bank has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Laura B Figg has the most, with 1 of Western Alliance Bank's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
