Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
20 pending office actions • 11 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
MILLIKEN & Company is handling 20 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 18 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that most examiners are only reviewing a single application for the company. LARISSA ROWE EMRICH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently holding 2 pending office actions.
The presence of 11 distinct art units for 20 pending actions shows significant technical variety in the company's chemistry and materials filings. This broad spread across many examiners and art units suggests a decentralized prosecution environment. Managing 20 pending office actions across 18 distinct examiners requires coordinating with many different individual patent office officials. The involvement of 11 distinct art units highlights the complexity and breadth of the company's current chemistry and materials innovations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 7 (35%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 3 (15%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (35%) |
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% | +41.8% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | 1 | 53.9% | +30.2% |
| ELHILO, EISA B | 1 | 83.0% | +16.2% |
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.7% | +29.1% |
| PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1 | 78.7% | +11.3% |
| ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1 | 47.9% | +26.6% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
| YOON, TAE H | 1 | 66.5% | +24.7% |
| VANHORN, ABIGAIL LOUISE | 1 | 46.8% | +22.4% |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18636090 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HALOSILANE COMPOUNDS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 35d |
| 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 | 6 |
| 1762 | 2 |
| 1765 | 2 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1692 | 1 |
| 1759 | 1 |
| 1636 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092685 | Flame-Resistant Fabric | KHAN, TAHSEEN | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18939771 | FIRE RESISTANT COMPOSITE | MCKINNON, LASHAWNDA T | — | 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 |
| 18636090 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HALOSILANE COMPOUNDS | PAGANO, ALEXANDER R | 1692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18403836 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18403838 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | ROLLAND, ALEX A | 1759 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18403847 | PRINTED TEXTILE SUBSTRATE AND PROCESS FOR MAKING | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §102§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 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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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