Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
MILLIKEN & Company has 17 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio involves 15 examiners and 9 art units, showing broad examination coverage with multiple matters assigned within some technical groups.
EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration may support coordinated review of recurring issues, but it does not replace matter-specific analysis across the broader examiner group.
The portfolio would benefit from centralized tracking of claim themes, cited technology, and response positions. Counsel should also compare matters within the same art unit for consistency while adapting argument and amendment choices to each examiner’s treatment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 | 5 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (13%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 3 | 48.3% | +41.6% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.2% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 54.0% | +30.2% |
| ELHILO, EISA B | 1 | 82.9% | +16.2% |
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.6% | +28.5% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.4% | +27.4% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.7% | +24.5% |
| VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 1 | 46.8% | +22.7% |
| CHOI, PETER Y | 1 | 20.4% | +32.5% |
| WORRELL, KEVIN | 1 | 12.5% | -3.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18794038 | Composition Comprising Hueing Agent | ELHILO, EISA B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17975941 | COMPOSITE FABRIC CONTAINING BIO-BASED FIBERS | CHOI, PETER Y | 6d |
| 18403847 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 21d |
| 18403844 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 21d |
| 17974165 | THERMOFORMABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE | WORRELL, KEVIN | 28d |
| 18657238 | MOLDABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| 18532454 | Insulated Composite Fabric | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| 18218166 | Horticulture Additive | VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17975941 | COMPOSITE FABRIC CONTAINING BIO-BASED FIBERS | CHOI, PETER Y | 6d |
| 18403836 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 21d |
| 18403847 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 21d |
| 18403844 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 21d |
| 19092685 | Flame-Resistant Fabric | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — |
| 18939771 | FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | — |
| 18794038 | Composition Comprising Hueing Agent | ELHILO, EISA B | — |
| 18657238 | MOLDABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE | CHEN, VIVIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1789 | 7 |
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1762 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092685 | Flame-Resistant Fabric | KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1781 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18939771 | FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1789 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18794038 | Composition Comprising Hueing Agent | ELHILO, EISA B | 1761 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18657238 | MOLDABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18403836 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18403847 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18403844 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18532454 | Insulated Composite Fabric | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18527907 | ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS AND THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME | YOON, TAE H | 1762 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18218166 | Horticulture Additive | VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 1636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
| 17975941 | COMPOSITE FABRIC CONTAINING BIO-BASED FIBERS | CHOI, PETER Y | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Oct 28, 2022 |
| 17974165 | THERMOFORMABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE | WORRELL, KEVIN | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
| 17747480 | Multi-Layer Wound Care Device Having Absorption and Fluid Transfer Properties | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 18, 2022 |
| 17580316 | LIQUID APPLIED ROOFING COMPOSITE | GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 20, 2022 |
| 17380780 | LIQUID APPLIED ROOFING COMPOSITE | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMILLIKEN & Company has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 13 examiners.
Larissa Rowe Emrich has the most, with 3 of MILLIKEN & Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
