Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
17 pending office actions • 12 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
NSG Group has 17 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio is distributed among 17 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, showing broad examiner coverage across a more limited set of technical groupings. Prosecution oversight must therefore account for both the number of active matters and the variation among examiner assignments.
MILLER, MICHAEL G is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate shared chemistry and materials themes, but each application should retain an independent claim and prior-art response strategy.
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.
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.
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 (29%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1 | 52.3% | +15.6% |
| NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1 | 21.5% | +37.3% |
| TUROCY, DAVID P | 1 | 46.9% | +35.8% |
| VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1 | 54.5% | +24.8% |
| CHEN, BRET P | 1 | 84.5% | +16.3% |
| TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1 | 59.2% | +30.9% |
| AUBREY, BETH A | 1 | 80.7% | +16.8% |
| COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1 | 69.8% | +16.2% |
| TRAN, UYEN M | 1 | 31.2% | +39.5% |
| DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1 | 66.3% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108507 | PROCESS FOR DEPOSITING A LAYER | MILLER, MICHAEL G | — |
| 18875215 | COATED GLASS ARTICLES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18865778 | PROCESS FOR FORMING A COATING | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| 18864152 | GLAZING COMPRISING INTEGRATED SECONDARY GLAZING PANE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | — |
| 18861900 | METHOD OF FORMING A TIN OXIDE COATING | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 18718529 | GLAZING UNIT | AUBREY, BETH A | — |
| 18699991 | FIRE-RESISTANT GLAZING | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18546292 | SUPPORT FOR A SHEET OF GLASS | WILKINSON, RALPH DAVID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836779 | PROCESS FOR FORMING A COATING | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 31d overdue |
| 18599688 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL GLAZING UNIT | TRAN, UYEN M | 12d |
| 19108507 | PROCESS FOR DEPOSITING A LAYER | MILLER, MICHAEL G | — |
| 18875215 | COATED GLASS ARTICLES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | — |
| 18865778 | PROCESS FOR FORMING A COATING | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| 18864152 | GLAZING COMPRISING INTEGRATED SECONDARY GLAZING PANE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | — |
| 18861900 | METHOD OF FORMING A TIN OXIDE COATING | CHEN, BRET P | — |
| 18718529 | GLAZING UNIT | AUBREY, BETH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1718 | 2 |
| 1784 | 2 |
| 1781 | 2 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1726 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108507 | PROCESS FOR DEPOSITING A LAYER | MILLER, MICHAEL G | 1712 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 18875215 | COATED GLASS ARTICLES | NELSON, MICHAEL B | 1787 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18865778 | PROCESS FOR FORMING A COATING | TUROCY, DAVID P | 1718 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18864152 | GLAZING COMPRISING INTEGRATED SECONDARY GLAZING PANE | VAN SELL, NATHAN L | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18861900 | METHOD OF FORMING A TIN OXIDE COATING | CHEN, BRET P | 1718 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18836779 | PROCESS FOR FORMING A COATING | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18718529 | GLAZING UNIT | AUBREY, BETH A | 3633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18699991 | FIRE-RESISTANT GLAZING | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18599688 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL GLAZING UNIT | TRAN, UYEN M | 1726 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18485361 | Compound | DAVIS, SHENG HAN | 1732 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18546292 | SUPPORT FOR A SHEET OF GLASS | WILKINSON, RALPH DAVID | 3654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18250233 | COATED GLAZING | HORGER, KIM S. | 1784 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18246955 | LAMINATED GLAZING | GAITONDE, MEGHA MEHTA | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | 107d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18246867 | LAMINATED GLAZING | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18004740 | LAMINATED GLAZING | FERRE, ALEXANDRE F | 1788 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 17919058 | DESIGN OF APPARATUS FOR TEMPERING CURVED GLASS SHEETS | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 1741 | §112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
| 17910026 | COATED GLAZING | JACKSON, MONIQUE R | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialNSG Group has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 17 examiners.
Michael G Miller has the most, with 1 of NSG Group's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
