Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Armstrong World Industries Inc. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are located in 2 distinct art units, which suggests a technical focus for the pending applications. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 5 pending actions is assigned to a different individual.
The busiest examiner, COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A, is responsible for 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. This shows that the 5 pending office actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners without overlap. While the 2 distinct art units offer concentration in terms of patent office groups, the company must still address the requirements of 5 different examiners.
With 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution efforts are decentralized at the personnel level. The 2 distinct art units within the Chemistry & Materials sector represent the primary administrative environments for these 5 actions. This structure requires the company to maintain consistent positions across 5 distinct examiners while navigating 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | 1 | 81.5% | +14.3% |
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 1 | 69.9% | +24.0% |
| FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1 | 78.4% | +13.2% |
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.4% | +28.9% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17825101 | SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PRINTING UPON TEXTURED SURFACES OF BUILDING PANELS, AND METHODS THEREOF | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1d overdue |
| 18866548 | SURFACE COVERING SYSTEM | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| 18738763 | COMPOSITE BUILDING PANEL | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17825101 | SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PRINTING UPON TEXTURED SURFACES OF BUILDING PANELS, AND METHODS THEREOF | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1d overdue |
| 18989645 | ANTIMICROBIAL BUILDING PANELS | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | — |
| 18866548 | SURFACE COVERING SYSTEM | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| 18738763 | COMPOSITE BUILDING PANEL | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989645 | ANTIMICROBIAL BUILDING PANELS | COLLISTER, ELIZABETH A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18988339 | ANTIMICROBIAL BUILDING PANELS | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18866548 | SURFACE COVERING SYSTEM | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2024 |
| 18738763 | COMPOSITE BUILDING PANEL | FERGUSON, LAWRENCE D | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 17825101 | SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PRINTING UPON TEXTURED SURFACES OF BUILDING PANELS, AND METHODS THEREOF | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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