Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Potters Industries LLC maintains a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently faces 1 pending office action. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in this technical domain. This structure indicates that the company is pursuing a specific set of claims rather than a broad array of applications across different units at the USPTO.
LOUIE, MANDY C is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the total workload for Potters Industries LLC, making this examiner the primary figure in their current prosecution. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action indicates that the company's immediate IP goals are tied to a single examination process in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Practitioners should note that the company's strategy is currently centralized under LOUIE, MANDY C. Successfully navigating the 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit will be the primary factor in the company's immediate success. The data shows no current diversification across other examiners or units, requiring a targeted approach to this specific examination process to advance the company's intellectual property goals.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIE, MANDY C | 1 | 48.0% | +29.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18363820 | RETROREFLECTIVE MARKING SYSTEM | LOUIE, MANDY C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18363820 | RETROREFLECTIVE MARKING SYSTEM | LOUIE, MANDY C | 1731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPotters Industries LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mandy C Louie has the most, with 1 of Potters Industries LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
