Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Albany Engineered Composites, Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the count of pending actions matches the count of examiners, suggesting that the company's current prosecution workload is not concentrated under any individual.
JOHNSON, VICKY A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action. This 1 action is part of the total 2 pending office actions for the company. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for the actions indicates that the technical subject matter, while categorized under Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, is reviewed by different specialized groups within the patent office.
For practitioners, this spread across distinct art units means that prosecution strategies may need to account for the specific tendencies of different examination environments. With distinct examiners involved, the company maintains a small footprint across the office's personnel. The presence of a pending action with the busiest examiner highlights a balanced distribution where no examiner is managing more than a single case for this entity.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, VICKY A | 1 | 80.1% | +12.1% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.4% | +43.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16250194 | Method of Making a Ceramic Matrix Composite | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 25d overdue |
| 18913759 | Rod End Made of Thermoplastic Fiber-Reinforced Plastic | JOHNSON, VICKY 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16250194 | Method of Making a Ceramic Matrix Composite | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 25d overdue |
| 18913759 | Rod End Made of Thermoplastic Fiber-Reinforced Plastic | JOHNSON, VICKY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18913759 | Rod End Made of Thermoplastic Fiber-Reinforced Plastic | JOHNSON, VICKY A | 3617 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 16250194 | Method of Making a Ceramic Matrix Composite | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialAlbany Engineered Composites, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Vicky A Johnson has the most, with 1 of Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
