Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

13 pending office actions • 12 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (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%)
12
Medium (92%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (8%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (92%)
No statute on record1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

8
Life Sciences
62% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
38% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M 1 73.0% +26.0%
MARTIN, VERONICA 1 81.6% +14.9%
DERUSSO, JOHN J 1 81.3% +13.6%
PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 1 73.0% +24.9%
CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 1 70.7% +14.8%
SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R 1 70.5% +8.4%
HANDVILLE, BRIAN 1 51.4% +27.5%
NGUYEN, JIMMY T 1 76.8% +23.7%
RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1 73.0% +29.6%
WAN, DEMING 1 76.5% +42.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18799775 ADJUSTABLE FOAM-PENETRATING NAIL GUN WITH TIP LOCKING MECHANISM MARTIN, VERONICA 66d overdue

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
18108499 HEAT-TREATED ENGINEERED WOOD FOR FLOORING WAN, DEMING 126d overdue
18799775 ADJUSTABLE FOAM-PENETRATING NAIL GUN WITH TIP LOCKING MECHANISM MARTIN, VERONICA 66d overdue
18940642 STRAND SIDING WITH PEBBLED STUCCO TEXTURE POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M 37d overdue
18777448 FACTORY-APPLIED END GASKET FOR LAP SIDING CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 31d overdue
18503350 METHOD TO PRODUCE FACTORY-FINISHED WOOD PANELS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 31d overdue
18791319 LIQUID SEALANT PACK AND DISPENSING SYSTEM PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 2d overdue
18587320 WOOD STRUCTURAL PANELS WITH COATING COMBINING FIRE-RESISTANCE AND WATER RESISTANCE HANDVILLE, BRIAN 7d
18429106 METHOD FOR CLEANING PRESS PLATENS USING THERMOSETTING RESIN NGUYEN, JIMMY T 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1787 2
1785 1
3731 1
1744 1
3754 1
3633 1
1759 1
1783 1
3725 1
1712 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18940642 STRAND SIDING WITH PEBBLED STUCCO TEXTURE POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M 1785 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2024
18799775 ADJUSTABLE FOAM-PENETRATING NAIL GUN WITH TIP LOCKING MECHANISM MARTIN, VERONICA 3731 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Aug 09, 2024
18798082 MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ENGINEERED COMPOSITE PANEL WITH LIGNOCELLULOSIC STRANDS AND ANTI-SETTLING FIBERS DERUSSO, JOHN J 1744 Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Aug 08, 2024
18791319 LIQUID SEALANT PACK AND DISPENSING SYSTEM PANCHOLI, VISHAL J 3754 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18777448 FACTORY-APPLIED END GASKET FOR LAP SIDING CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 3633 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jul 18, 2024
18657562 FIBER-REINFORCED ORIENTED STRAND BOARD SINGH-PANDEY, ARTI R 1759 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending May 07, 2024
18587320 WOOD STRUCTURAL PANELS WITH COATING COMBINING FIRE-RESISTANCE AND WATER RESISTANCE HANDVILLE, BRIAN 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 26, 2024
18429106 METHOD FOR CLEANING PRESS PLATENS USING THERMOSETTING RESIN NGUYEN, JIMMY T 3725 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jan 31, 2024
18503350 METHOD TO PRODUCE FACTORY-FINISHED WOOD PANELS RODRIGUEZ, MICHAEL P 1712 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18108499 HEAT-TREATED ENGINEERED WOOD FOR FLOORING WAN, DEMING 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18097048 ENGINEERED WOOD SIDING, TRIM AND FENCING WITH FIRE RESISTANT PROPERTIES SIMONE, CATHERINE A 1781 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
16840366 NON-BACKED METALLIZED PET RADIANT BARRIER FACTORY BONDED TO CELLULOSIC SUBSTRATE KRUER, KEVIN R 1787 §103 Final Rejection 52d overdue Pending Apr 04, 2020
15365731 PERMEABLE ELASTOMERIC MEMBRANE ADHERED TO FIRE-RATED STRUCTURAL OSB PANELS NELSON, MICHAEL B 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2016

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