Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC has 6 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being handled by a different person. These examiners are situated within 3 distinct art units, which suggests that the pending office actions are grouped into a few specific technical categories. This structure allows the company to maintain a presence across 3 distinct art units while engaging with a variety of examination styles.
The busiest examiner, GATES, BRADFORD M, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total workload is spread across distinct examiners, the company receives feedback from a variety of individuals. This distribution of 6 pending office actions ensures that no single examiner has an outsized impact on the current portfolio. For a practitioner, this indicates that prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific preferences of each examiner involved in the current filings.
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 (29%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| §112 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
| GATES, BRADFORD M | 1 | 74.8% | +23.8% |
| CONNER, SEAN M | 1 | 78.6% | +26.7% |
| BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.9% | +13.2% |
| KOLB, KATARZYNA I | 1 | 45.2% | +15.9% |
| 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 6 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 | — |
| 18797256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING COLOR AND APPEARANCE OF TARGET COATINGS | CONNER, SEAN M | — |
| 18639027 | COATING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR APPLICATION UTILIZING A HIGH TRANSFER EFFICIENCY APPLICATOR | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | — |
| 18618119 | DISPERSANT POLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1717 | 2 |
| 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 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2025 |
| 19225816 | COLOR MEASUREMENT | GATES, BRADFORD M | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 18797256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MATCHING COLOR AND APPEARANCE OF TARGET COATINGS | CONNER, SEAN M | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18639027 | COATING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR APPLICATION UTILIZING A HIGH TRANSFER EFFICIENCY APPLICATOR | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18618119 | DISPERSANT POLYMER AND COMPOSITION COMPRISING THE SAME | KOLB, KATARZYNA I | — | §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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