Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eastman Kodak Company has 7 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units, indicating a distributed docket with some repeated examiner or art-unit coverage.
COHEN, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That allocation creates a useful point for coordinated review, but the remaining matters still require separate treatment across the other assignments.
The narrower art-unit count relative to the examiner count suggests that multiple examination perspectives may apply within shared technical groups. Counsel can use common technical evidence where appropriate while preserving examiner-specific claim amendments, interview objectives, and response records.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 4 (57%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COHEN, MICHAEL P | 2 | 58.9% | +27.3% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.4% | +27.4% |
| JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1 | 55.6% | +8.5% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| KHAN, AMINA S | 1 | 47.6% | +43.0% |
| DIGGS, TANISHA | 1 | 55.1% | +54.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18776467 | ARTICLES HAVING ANTI-BLOCKING SURFACE USING FLOCK ALTERNATIVE | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18743204 | METHOD FOR MITIGATING MICROBIAL ACTIVITY USING ANTIMICROBIAL ARTICLES | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18359077 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ARTICLE WITH ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE PATTERN | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17720370 | NON-FOAMED AQUEOUS COMPOSITION | DIGGS, TANISHA | 28d |
| 17989070 | METHOD FOR MAKING PATTERNED LIGHT-BLOCKING ELEMENTS | KHAN, AMINA S | 77d |
| 18776467 | ARTICLES HAVING ANTI-BLOCKING SURFACE USING FLOCK ALTERNATIVE | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18743225 | ANTIMICROBIAL ARTICLES HAVING PEELABLE LINERS AND MANUFACTURING METHODS | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18743204 | METHOD FOR MITIGATING MICROBIAL ACTIVITY USING ANTIMICROBIAL ARTICLES | COHEN, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1612 | 2 |
| 1761 | 2 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1617 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18776467 | ARTICLES HAVING ANTI-BLOCKING SURFACE USING FLOCK ALTERNATIVE | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18743178 | ANTIMICROBIAL ARTICLES | JUSTICE, GINA CHIEUN YU | 1617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18743225 | ANTIMICROBIAL ARTICLES HAVING PEELABLE LINERS AND MANUFACTURING METHODS | COHEN, MICHAEL P | 1612 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18743204 | METHOD FOR MITIGATING MICROBIAL ACTIVITY USING ANTIMICROBIAL ARTICLES | COHEN, MICHAEL P | 1612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18359077 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ARTICLE WITH ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE PATTERN | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 3729 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 17989070 | METHOD FOR MAKING PATTERNED LIGHT-BLOCKING ELEMENTS | KHAN, AMINA S | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17720370 | NON-FOAMED AQUEOUS COMPOSITION | DIGGS, TANISHA | 1761 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 14, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialEastman Kodak Company has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Michael P Cohen has the most, with 2 of Eastman Kodak Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
