Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

MILLIKEN & Company

16 pending office actions • 9 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
13
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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.

5
Hard (31%)
7
Medium (44%)
4
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (38%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Double-patenting only3 (19%)
Double-patenting + other1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)5 (31%)

Industry Mix

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

11
Life Sciences
69% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
12% of docket
3
Business / Other
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN 2 45.5% +39.5%
MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T 1 53.1% +31.4%
SALVATORE, LYNDA 1 64.0% +19.4%
ELHILO, EISA B 1 83.1% +16.0%
PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1 78.9% +11.1%
MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM 1 69.9% +22.1%
PIZIALI, ANDREW T 1 28.5% +27.4%
YOON, TAE H 1 66.5% +24.7%
RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1 68.8% +31.9%
JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1 49.0% +32.8%

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
18794038 Composition Comprising Hueing Agent ELHILO, EISA B

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17974165 THERMOFORMABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE WORRELL, KEVIN 28d
18532454 Insulated Composite Fabric PIZIALI, ANDREW T
18240608 Composition Comprising Hueing Agent RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE
18135261 ADDITIVE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME COONEY, JOHN M
18029835 POLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA
17962576 End-Modified Branched Block Copolymers As Dual-Functional Soil Surfactants and Humectants JONES JR., ROBERT STOCKTON

Interview Candidates (11)

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
18583377 INFLATABLE SUPPORT ARTICLE MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM 231d overdue
18240394 ADDITIVE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A POLYMER COMPOSITION USING THE SAME JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 29d
18636090 METHOD FOR PRODUCING HALOSILANE COMPOUNDS PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 35d
18939771 FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T
18939778 FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE SALVATORE, LYNDA
18794038 Composition Comprising Hueing Agent ELHILO, EISA B
18532454 Insulated Composite Fabric PIZIALI, ANDREW T
18527907 ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS AND THERMOPLASTIC POLYMER COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING THE SAME YOON, TAE H

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1789 3
1762 2
1765 2
3786 2
1761 1
1692 1
3993 1
1621 1
1766 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18939771 FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 07, 2024
18939778 FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE SALVATORE, LYNDA 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
18636090 METHOD FOR PRODUCING HALOSILANE COMPOUNDS PAGANO, ALEXANDER R 1692 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Apr 15, 2024
18583377 INFLATABLE SUPPORT ARTICLE MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM 3993 §103 Non-Final OA 231d overdue Pending Feb 21, 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
18240608 Composition Comprising Hueing Agent RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, VALERIE 1621 §102§112 Final Rejection Pending Aug 31, 2023
18240394 ADDITIVE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A POLYMER COMPOSITION USING THE SAME JOHNSTON, BRIEANN R 1766 §112Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 31, 2023
18135261 ADDITIVE COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME COONEY, JOHN M 1765 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 17, 2023
18029835 POLYMER COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME WOODWARD, ANA LUCRECIA 1765 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2023
17974165 THERMOFORMABLE NONWOVEN COMPOSITE WORRELL, KEVIN 1789 §103§112 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 26, 2022
17962576 End-Modified Branched Block Copolymers As Dual-Functional Soil Surfactants and Humectants JONES JR., ROBERT STOCKTON 1762 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2022
17747480 Multi-Layer Wound Care Device Having Absorption and Fluid Transfer Properties CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN 3786 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 18, 2022
17380780 LIQUID APPLIED ROOFING COMPOSITE IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE 1789 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2021
16442594 Multi-Layer Wound Care Device Having Absorption and Fluid Transfer Properties CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN 3786 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2019

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