Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Axalta Coating Systems Ip Co. LLC

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (86%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (14%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (71%)
§102 only1 (14%)
No statute on record1 (14%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

6
Life Sciences
86% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
14% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 1 51.4% +50.4%
TALBOT, BRIAN K 1 59.1% +30.7%
BOWMAN, ANDREW J 1 65.7% +12.9%
SAJOUS, WESNER 1 92.0% +7.6%
DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1 63.4% +19.7%
LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK 1 51.5% -1.7%
RICE, STEVEN 1 38.5% +43.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18440220 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A COATING SAJOUS, WESNER 5d

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18784245 Top Coat Composition WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 105d overdue
18523257 METHOD OF APPLYING COATING COMPOSITIONS TO A SUBSTRATE DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 43d overdue
14825795 COATING SYSTEM FOR CEMENT COMPOSITE ARTICLES RICE, STEVEN 22d
18722376 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PAINTING AN OBJECT TALBOT, BRIAN K 43d
18639027 COATING COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR APPLICATION UTILIZING A HIGH TRANSFER EFFICIENCY APPLICATOR BOWMAN, ANDREW J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1717 3
1712 1
2612 1
1732 1
1787 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18784245 Top Coat Composition WALTERS JR, ROBERT S 1717 §102 Non-Final OA 105d overdue Pending Jul 25, 2024
18722376 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PAINTING AN OBJECT TALBOT, BRIAN K 1712 Other Non-Final OA 43d Pending Jun 20, 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
18440220 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A COATING SAJOUS, WESNER 2612 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18523257 METHOD OF APPLYING COATING COMPOSITIONS TO A SUBSTRATE DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1717 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
17815271 COATING PIGMENTS AND METHODS OF MAKING THEREOF LIOTT, CAROLINE DUSHECK 1732 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2022
14825795 COATING SYSTEM FOR CEMENT COMPOSITE ARTICLES RICE, STEVEN 1787 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Aug 13, 2015

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