Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Flooring Industries Limited Sarl

9 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
§102 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

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

6
Life Sciences
67% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
11% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 2 70.6% +38.5%
HERRING, BRENT W 2 68.9% +16.8%
UTT, ETHAN A 1 46.5% +45.0%
PENNY, TABATHA L 1 45.5% +22.9%
RICE, STEVEN 1 38.5% +43.0%
CULLER, JILL E 1 57.1% +13.8%
GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN 1 29.0% +37.9%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17291093 COVERED PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COVERED PANELS GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN 14d

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17504789 METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECORATING A PANEL CULLER, JILL E 59d overdue
18512366 Floor Panel for Forming a Floor Covering and Method for Manufacturing a Floor Panel HERRING, BRENT W 19d overdue
18529358 BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BOARD AND A PANEL COMPRISING SUCH BOARD MATERIAL KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 2d overdue
18529191 BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BOARD AND A PANEL COMPRISING SUCH BOARD MATERIAL KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1d overdue
18558957 A METHOD AND A LINE FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC TILES, AND CERAMIC TILES PENNY, TABATHA L 1d overdue
17291093 COVERED PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COVERED PANELS GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN 14d
18512293 PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PANEL UTT, ETHAN A 29d
18283068 PANELS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PANELS RICE, STEVEN 55d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1731 2
3633 2
1783 1
1712 1
1787 1
2853 1
1789 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18529191 BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BOARD AND A PANEL COMPRISING SUCH BOARD MATERIAL KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1731 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18529358 BOARD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BOARD AND A PANEL COMPRISING SUCH BOARD MATERIAL KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA 1731 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 05, 2023
18512366 Floor Panel for Forming a Floor Covering and Method for Manufacturing a Floor Panel HERRING, BRENT W 3633 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18512293 PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A PANEL UTT, ETHAN A 1783 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18558957 A METHOD AND A LINE FOR MANUFACTURING CERAMIC TILES, AND CERAMIC TILES PENNY, TABATHA L 1712 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18283068 PANELS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING PANELS RICE, STEVEN 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Sep 20, 2023
18261335 SET OF FLOOR PANELS AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING THIS SET OF FLOOR PANELS HERRING, BRENT W 3633 §102 Non-Final OA 78d Pending Jul 13, 2023
17504789 METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECORATING A PANEL CULLER, JILL E 2853 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2021
17291093 COVERED PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COVERED PANELS GILLETT, JENNIFER ANN 1789 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending May 04, 2021

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