Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Armstrong World Industries Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 examiners and 4 art units, so each pending matter occupies a distinct assignment.
MINTZ, RODNEY K is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Prosecution management should focus on separate analysis of each office action rather than a shared examiner strategy.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.8% |
| COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 81.7% | +14.1% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 54.0% | +30.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989645 | ANTIMICROBIAL BUILDING PANELS | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866729 | BUILDING PANEL | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193712 | GASKETED CEILING SYSTEM | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| 18989645 | ANTIMICROBIAL BUILDING PANELS | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18866729 | BUILDING PANEL | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193712 | GASKETED CEILING SYSTEM | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 3635 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 18989645 | ANTIMICROBIAL BUILDING PANELS | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18866729 | BUILDING PANEL | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialArmstrong World Industries Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Rodney K Mintz has the most, with 1 of Armstrong World Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
