Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
I4F Licensing NV is currently managing 10 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, indicating some examiner overlap within the portfolio. The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, CHI Q, is responsible for 2 pending office actions, while the remaining 10 pending office actions are handled by the other distinct examiners.
The active matters are spread across 6 distinct art units, showing a moderate concentration of technical subject matter. This distribution across 6 distinct art units and 8 distinct examiners requires a strategy that accounts for both individual examiner preferences and broader group trends. Managing the active portfolio requires careful attention to ensure that arguments remain harmonized across the company's transportation and mechanical systems filings.
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 (27%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (64%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 2 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| FORD, GISELE D | 2 | 69.7% | +14.3% |
| AGUDELO, PAOLA | 1 | 76.9% | +17.1% |
| MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 1 | 70.0% | +24.5% |
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.0% | +16.5% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.5% | +41.1% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +43.7% |
| PATEL, VISHAL I | 1 | 78.5% | +9.8% |
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1 | 48.3% | +41.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18978013 | Floor Board and Method for Manufacturing Such Floor Boards | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850886 | Panel, Covering, and Method for Manufacturing Such a Panel | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 42d overdue |
| 19102474 | Panel for Composing a Floor Covering or Wall Covering, Panel System, and Method | AGUDELO, PAOLA | — |
| 19102581 | Extruded Panel and Method of Producing a Panel Thereof | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| 19048450 | Glue-Down Decorative Floor Covering System | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18876786 | Decorative Panel, Decorative Covering Composed of a Plurality of Such Panels, and Decorative Panel System | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| 18724692 | Decorative Anti-Slip Floor Covering Element and Decorative Anti-Slip Floor Covering | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | — |
| 18696683 | Panel Interconnectable With Similar Panels for Forming a Covering | FORD, GISELE D | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18850886 | Panel, Covering, and Method for Manufacturing Such a Panel | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 42d overdue |
| 17791088 | Carpet Tile, and Carpet Covering Made of Such Carpet Tiles | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 34d |
| 19102474 | Panel for Composing a Floor Covering or Wall Covering, Panel System, and Method | AGUDELO, PAOLA | — |
| 19102581 | Extruded Panel and Method of Producing a Panel Thereof | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| 19048450 | Glue-Down Decorative Floor Covering System | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18876786 | Decorative Panel, Decorative Covering Composed of a Plurality of Such Panels, and Decorative Panel System | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| 18978013 | Floor Board and Method for Manufacturing Such Floor Boards | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18940321 | Panel, in Particular a Floor Panel or Wall Panel, and Panel Covering | FORD, GISELE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 4 |
| 3635 | 2 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102474 | Panel for Composing a Floor Covering or Wall Covering, Panel System, and Method | AGUDELO, PAOLA | 3633 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19102581 | Extruded Panel and Method of Producing a Panel Thereof | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19048450 | Glue-Down Decorative Floor Covering System | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18876786 | Decorative Panel, Decorative Covering Composed of a Plurality of Such Panels, and Decorative Panel System | HERRING, BRENT W | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18978013 | Floor Board and Method for Manufacturing Such Floor Boards | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18940321 | Panel, in Particular a Floor Panel or Wall Panel, and Panel Covering | FORD, GISELE D | 3633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18850886 | Panel, Covering, and Method for Manufacturing Such a Panel | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18724692 | Decorative Anti-Slip Floor Covering Element and Decorative Anti-Slip Floor Covering | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18696683 | Panel Interconnectable With Similar Panels for Forming a Covering | FORD, GISELE D | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18206780 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A GLUELESS DUSTLESS COMPOSITE FLOORING MATERIAL SYSTEM | PATEL, VISHAL I | 1746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 17791088 | Carpet Tile, and Carpet Covering Made of Such Carpet Tiles | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jul 06, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialI4F Licensing NV has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
Chi Q Nguyen has the most, with 2 of I4F Licensing NV's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
