Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Knauf Insulation Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths. Counsel should review each action independently before deciding whether a common claim or specification strategy is appropriate.
CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The current data does not identify a concentrated examiner workload, so the practical focus is on aligning responses across separate assignments without assuming identical examination treatment.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 54.5% | +34.6% |
| SASTRI, SATYA B | 1 | 62.6% | +29.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18120952 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE PRODUCTS COMPRISING A CARBOHYDRATE-BASED BINDER | SASTRI, SATYA B | 8d overdue |
| 18425348 | BINDER-MEDIATED CUTABILITY OF INSULATION PRODUCTS | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18120952 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE PRODUCTS COMPRISING A CARBOHYDRATE-BASED BINDER | SASTRI, SATYA B | 8d overdue |
| 18425348 | BINDER-MEDIATED CUTABILITY OF INSULATION PRODUCTS | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18425348 | BINDER-MEDIATED CUTABILITY OF INSULATION PRODUCTS | CHIDIAC, NICHOLAS J | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18120952 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE PRODUCTS COMPRISING A CARBOHYDRATE-BASED BINDER | SASTRI, SATYA B | 1762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKnauf Insulation Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicholas J Chidiac has the most, with 1 of Knauf Insulation Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
