Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
James Hardie Technology Limited has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners in 2 art units, showing that the current prosecution activity is divided across distinct examination settings.
SELLS, JAMES D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A coordinated review can preserve consistency in materials and chemistry positions, while each response should address the requirements of its assigned examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELLS, JAMES D | 1 | 81.5% | +11.9% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +24.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19040789 | METHODS OF REDUCING FIBER CEMENT WASTE AND FIBER CEMENT ARTICLES PRODUCED THEREFROM | SELLS, JAMES 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17290648 | INTEGRALLY WATERPROOF FIBER CEMENT COMPOSITE MATERIAL | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 9d |
| 19040789 | METHODS OF REDUCING FIBER CEMENT WASTE AND FIBER CEMENT ARTICLES PRODUCED THEREFROM | SELLS, JAMES D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1745 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19040789 | METHODS OF REDUCING FIBER CEMENT WASTE AND FIBER CEMENT ARTICLES PRODUCED THEREFROM | SELLS, JAMES D | 1745 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2025 |
| 17290648 | INTEGRALLY WATERPROOF FIBER CEMENT COMPOSITE MATERIAL | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Apr 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialJames Hardie Technology Limited has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
James D Sells has the most, with 1 of James Hardie Technology Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
