Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flooring Industries Limited, SARL maintains a portfolio with 6 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is widely distributed, involving 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. The fact that there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners suggests a diverse range of technical inquiries across the portfolio. UTT, ETHAN A is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for 1 pending office action.
The presence of 6 distinct art units indicates that the company's intellectual property spans multiple specialized classifications within the Chemistry & Materials sector. With 6 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate various individual examiner styles and requirements simultaneously. The fact that the busiest examiner, UTT, ETHAN A, holds 1 pending office action highlights that no single individual dominates the current pending workload. This distribution may require a broad coordination strategy to ensure consistency across the 6 different art units and examiners currently reviewing the company's applications. Every pending matter is being handled by a unique examiner, which prevents any single examiner from having a disproportionate impact on the overall portfolio status.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 47.8% | +41.2% |
| PENNY, TABATHA L | 1 | 45.7% | +22.8% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
| TRAN, PHI DIEU | 1 | 65.5% | +22.2% |
| ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 1 | 55.4% | +44.6% |
| CULLER, JILL E | 1 | 57.2% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18512293 | PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PANEL | UTT, ETHAN A | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17504789 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECORATING A PANEL | CULLER, JILL E | 59d overdue |
| 18558957 | A METHOD AND A LINE FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC TILES, AND CERAMIC TILES | PENNY, TABATHA L | 1d overdue |
| 18512293 | PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PANEL | UTT, ETHAN A | 29d |
| 18035780 | FLOOR PANEL | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| 18193048 | PANEL, COVERING AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING SUCH PANELS | TRAN, PHI DIEU | — |
| 17757544 | USE OF A COATING MATERIAL ON THE EDGES OF DECORATIVE PANELS AND METHOD | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18512293 | PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PANEL | UTT, ETHAN A | 1783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18558957 | A METHOD AND A LINE FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC TILES, AND CERAMIC TILES | PENNY, TABATHA L | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18035780 | FLOOR PANEL | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 18193048 | PANEL, COVERING AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING SUCH PANELS | TRAN, PHI DIEU | 3633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 17757544 | USE OF A COATING MATERIAL ON THE EDGES OF DECORATIVE PANELS AND METHOD | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
| 17504789 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECORATING A PANEL | CULLER, JILL E | 2853 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2021 |
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