Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 8 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner dispersion with limited technical-unit repetition.
WALTERS JR, ROBERT S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket favors matter-level review, supplemented by art-unit tracking where assignments overlap.
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 | 3 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (22%) |
| §112 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1 | 51.6% | +50.4% |
| GATES, BRADFORD M | 1 | 74.8% | +23.8% |
| HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1 | 67.2% | +41.1% |
| WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1 | 51.6% | +20.6% |
| CONNER, SEAN M | 1 | 78.7% | +26.4% |
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.1% | +25.2% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.3% | +17.2% |
| LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1 | 63.7% | +8.3% |
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING COLOR AND APPEARANCE OF TARGET COATINGS | CONNER, SEAN M | — |
| 18542212 | COATING COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14825795 | COATING SYSTEM FOR CEMENT COMPOSITE ARTICLES | RICE, STEVEN | 22d |
| 19306619 | A COATING COMPOSITION, A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CURED COATING, AND AN ARTICLE COMPRISING A CURED COATING | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | — |
| 19225816 | COLOR MEASUREMENT | GATES, BRADFORD M | — |
| 19035386 | TWO-PART (2K) WATER-BORNE COATING COMPOSITION | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | — |
| 19035395 | TWO-PART (2K) WATER-BORNE COATING COMPOSITION | WALSHON, SCOTT R | — |
| 18797256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING COLOR AND APPEARANCE OF TARGET COATINGS | CONNER, SEAN M | — |
| 18750702 | COATING APPLICATON SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COATING A SUBSTRATE | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
| 18618119 | DISPERSANT POLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1713 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 2663 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19306619 | A COATING COMPOSITION, A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CURED COATING, AND AN ARTICLE COMPRISING A CURED COATING | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19225816 | COLOR MEASUREMENT | GATES, BRADFORD M | 1713 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19035386 | TWO-PART (2K) WATER-BORNE COATING COMPOSITION | HESTER, HOLLEY GRACE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19035395 | TWO-PART (2K) WATER-BORNE COATING COMPOSITION | WALSHON, SCOTT R | 1759 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18797256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING COLOR AND APPEARANCE OF TARGET COATINGS | CONNER, SEAN M | 2663 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18750702 | COATING APPLICATON SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF COATING A SUBSTRATE | PENCE, JETHRO M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18618119 | DISPERSANT POLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1767 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18542212 | COATING COMPOSITIONS AND RELATED METHODS | LEONARD, MICHAEL L | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 14825795 | COATING SYSTEM FOR CEMENT COMPOSITE ARTICLES | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 13, 2015 |
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Start Free TrialAxalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Robert S Walters Jr. has the most, with 1 of Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
