Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gerflor has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units. The 5 pending office actions are distributed such that each of the 5 distinct examiners is handling exactly one matter for the company.
The busiest examiner, BAREFORD, KATHERINE A, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This matches the workload of the other examiners involved in the portfolio. The 4 distinct art units suggest that the company's technology is being reviewed in a few related technical groups, with at least two examiners likely working in the same unit.
With 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, the prosecution is relatively spread out. BAREFORD, KATHERINE A is one of the 5 distinct examiners who are each managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution shows that the 5 pending office actions are evenly split among the assigned USPTO personnel across the 4 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1 | 13.9% | +28.6% |
| BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 1 | 65.6% | +14.9% |
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| FERENCE, JAMES M | 1 | 71.2% | +16.8% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19124368 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING FLOOR OR WALL COVERINGS, AND ASSOCIATED COVERINGS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 19171570 | PANEL FOR PRODUCING SELF-LOCKING FLOOR COVERING | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| 18725715 | FLOOR OR WALL COVERING PANEL WITH INCREASED RESISTANCE TO DISASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18814123 | Traction Synthetic Flooring Apparatus | FERENCE, JAMES M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18146098 | MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURE FOR THE REALIZATION OF A FLOOR COVERING WITH ACOUSTIC INSULATION PROPERTIES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 45d overdue |
| 19124368 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING FLOOR OR WALL COVERINGS, AND ASSOCIATED COVERINGS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | — |
| 19171570 | PANEL FOR PRODUCING SELF-LOCKING FLOOR COVERING | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| 18725715 | FLOOR OR WALL COVERING PANEL WITH INCREASED RESISTANCE TO DISASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18814123 | Traction Synthetic Flooring Apparatus | FERENCE, JAMES M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 2 |
| 1718 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19124368 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING FLOOR OR WALL COVERINGS, AND ASSOCIATED COVERINGS | BAREFORD, KATHERINE A | 1718 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19171570 | PANEL FOR PRODUCING SELF-LOCKING FLOOR COVERING | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 18725715 | FLOOR OR WALL COVERING PANEL WITH INCREASED RESISTANCE TO DISASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18814123 | Traction Synthetic Flooring Apparatus | FERENCE, JAMES M | 3635 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18146098 | MULTI-LAYER STRUCTURE FOR THE REALIZATION OF A FLOOR COVERING WITH ACOUSTIC INSULATION PROPERTIES | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialGerflor has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Katherine A Bareford has the most, with 1 of Gerflor's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
