Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Saint-Gobain

15 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
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. 15 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
13
Medium (87%)
0
Easy (0%)
2
Unknown (13%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only12 (80%)
§102 only1 (7%)
No statute on record2 (13%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
67% of docket
1
Information Tech
7% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
27% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KONERU, LAKSHMI S 2 62.3% +16.4%
LEE, GILBERT Y 1 78.6% +10.6%
KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1 70.0% +22.9%
WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 1 45.9% +27.0%
LEONARD, MICHAEL L 1 63.7% +7.9%
DICUS, TAMRA 1 29.6% +21.4%
SERGENT, RABON A 1 54.2% +24.7%
KRUER, KEVIN R 1 26.7% +30.1%
HE, QIANPING 1 67.0% +15.4%
STOICA, ADRIAN 1 68.0% +30.6%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18067379 MULTILAYER LAMINATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME DICUS, TAMRA 16d overdue
17804138 MULTILAYER COMPOSITE WITH THERMAL BARRIER PROPERTIES KRUER, KEVIN R 27d

Interview Candidates (10)

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
17456324 SEAL STACK ASSEMBLY FOR RECIPROCATING PUMP KONERU, LAKSHMI S 53d overdue
18060356 ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MAKING SERGENT, RABON A 36d overdue
18897039 MULTILAYER GASKET AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME LEE, GILBERT Y 32d overdue
18067379 MULTILAYER LAMINATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME DICUS, TAMRA 16d overdue
17648596 RADOME AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME STOICA, ADRIAN 10d overdue
18397761 SELF ENERGIZED SEAL AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME KONERU, LAKSHMI S 4d overdue
18391777 MULTILAYER LAMINATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 2d overdue
17651372 FILTER ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH VOLUME EVACUATION HE, QIANPING 9d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3675 3
1787 3
1799 1
1781 1
1763 1
1765 1
1776 1
2188 1
1631 1
1764 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18897039 MULTILAYER GASKET AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME LEE, GILBERT Y 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Sep 26, 2024
18636741 CELL CULTURE SYSTEM KIPOUROS, HOLLY MICHAELA 1799 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18397761 SELF ENERGIZED SEAL AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME KONERU, LAKSHMI S 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Dec 27, 2023
18391777 MULTILAYER LAMINATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME WEYDEMEYER, ALICIA JANE 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18505386 POLYURETHANE FOAM AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME LEONARD, MICHAEL L 1763 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18067379 MULTILAYER LAMINATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME DICUS, TAMRA 1787 Other Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
18060356 ARTICLE AND METHOD OF MAKING SERGENT, RABON A 1765 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
17804138 MULTILAYER COMPOSITE WITH THERMAL BARRIER PROPERTIES KRUER, KEVIN R 1787 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending May 26, 2022
17651372 FILTER ASSEMBLY FOR HIGH VOLUME EVACUATION HE, QIANPING 1776 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 16, 2022
17648596 RADOME AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE SAME STOICA, ADRIAN 2188 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Jan 21, 2022
17564949 Cell Culture System BATES, KEENAN ALEXANDER 1631 Other Final Rejection 73d overdue Pending Dec 29, 2021
17456324 SEAL STACK ASSEMBLY FOR RECIPROCATING PUMP KONERU, LAKSHMI S 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Nov 23, 2021
16720138 ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME KRYLOVA, IRINA 1764 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 19, 2019
16694422 FLUID MANIFOLD GARDNER, NICOLE 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Nov 25, 2019
16670904 MULTILAYER CURABLE ARTICLES SHOSHO, CALLIE E 1787 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 31, 2019

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