Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rockwool A/S has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Those matters are distributed among 6 examiners and 5 art units, indicating that prosecution is spread across several examination assignments rather than concentrated in one technical group.
HERRING, LISA L handles the largest identified share, with 4 pending matters. That concentration gives counsel a defined point for reviewing recurring objections, claim interpretation, and amendment strategy, while the broader examiner and art-unit distribution calls for maintaining matter-specific prosecution records.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 4 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRING, LISA L | 4 | 72.9% | +17.2% |
| STEELE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 48.7% | +33.5% |
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.0% | +16.5% |
| SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1 | 62.6% | +27.3% |
| FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 1 | 61.4% | +23.4% |
| ZHANG, HAI Y | 1 | 69.0% | +41.8% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19123000 | HIGH-SPEED ROTOR | HERRING, LISA L | — |
| 18994931 | Mineral Fibre Panel and Process of Manufacture | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18880637 | Acoustic Baffle | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| 18000536 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAN-MADE VITREOUS FIBRES | HERRING, LISA L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17796588 | METHOD FOR MAKING MAN-MADE VITREOUS FIBRES | HERRING, LISA L | 13d |
| 17796630 | METHOD OF MAKING MINERAL FIBRES | HERRING, LISA L | 13d |
| 19123000 | HIGH-SPEED ROTOR | HERRING, LISA L | — |
| 18994931 | Mineral Fibre Panel and Process of Manufacture | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — |
| 18880637 | Acoustic Baffle | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| 18779304 | MINERAL WOOL PRODUCT | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | — |
| 18707467 | METHOD OF PREPARING A MELT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MAN-MADE MINERAL FIBRES | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | — |
| 18277518 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MINERAL FIBRE PRODUCT | ZHANG, HAI Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1741 | 4 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19123000 | HIGH-SPEED ROTOR | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 18994931 | Mineral Fibre Panel and Process of Manufacture | STEELE, JENNIFER A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18880637 | Acoustic Baffle | HERRING, BRENT W | 3633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18779304 | MINERAL WOOL PRODUCT | SCHATZ, CHRISTOPHER T | 1746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18707467 | METHOD OF PREPARING A MELT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MAN-MADE MINERAL FIBRES | FRANKLIN, JODI COHEN | 1741 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18277518 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MINERAL FIBRE PRODUCT | ZHANG, HAI Y | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18000536 | A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MAN-MADE VITREOUS FIBRES | HERRING, LISA L | 1700 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2022 |
| 17995397 | ACOUSTIC PRODUCTS | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2022 |
| 17796588 | METHOD FOR MAKING MAN-MADE VITREOUS FIBRES | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 17796630 | METHOD OF MAKING MINERAL FIBRES | HERRING, LISA L | 1741 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialRockwool A/S has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Lisa L Herring has the most, with 4 of Rockwool A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
