Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dal-Tile LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling exactly 1 case. This distribution ensures that the company's current workload is not concentrated under a single individual's review.
The prosecution activity is further divided across 2 distinct art units. Jerzi H Moreno Hernandez is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 art units, the company is engaging with different specialized groups within the USPTO's chemistry and materials divisions. This requires a strategy that addresses the specific technical standards of 2 separate art units and the individual requirements of 2 different examiners. The lack of overlap between examiners and art units suggests that the company's current applications cover distinct chemical or material innovations.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1 | 73.1% | +15.4% |
| BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1 | 81.5% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18880222 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DECORATIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING AN ENGINEERED STONE AND A DECORATIVE ELEMENT AND A DECORATIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING AND ENGINEERED STONE | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19262690 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ENGINEERED STONE AND AN ENGINEERED STONE | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | — |
| 18880222 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DECORATIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING AN ENGINEERED STONE AND A DECORATIVE ELEMENT AND A DECORATIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING AND ENGINEERED STONE | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19262690 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ENGINEERED STONE AND AN ENGINEERED STONE | MORENO HERNANDEZ, JERZI H | 1743 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 18880222 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DECORATIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING AN ENGINEERED STONE AND A DECORATIVE ELEMENT AND A DECORATIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING AND ENGINEERED STONE | BERNARD, ADRIEN J | 1741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
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