Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
11 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shaw Industries Group Inc. has 10 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 9 distinct examiners and 9 art units, indicating broad dispersion across technical assignments and nearly as many examiner settings.
NGUYEN, CHI Q is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending actions. Coordinating those responses may help maintain consistent treatment of related claims, while the other matters require separate examiner-specific analysis. The art-unit distribution also supports organizing the docket around technical issues rather than assuming a single prosecution pattern.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 3 (27%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 2 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| DURHAM, NATHAN E | 1 | 65.9% | +17.3% |
| LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 1 | 61.1% | +41.6% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.6% | +29.5% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +43.7% |
| MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 1 | 70.0% | +24.5% |
| STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 1 | 85.8% | +12.7% |
| PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 1 | 83.2% | +14.2% |
| MARKMAN, MAKENA | 1 | 59.9% | +38.3% |
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1 | 48.3% | +41.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18713738 | ACOUSTIC ARTICLE, DECORATIVE ELEMENT, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 20d |
| 19065608 | Nonwoven Surface Covering Elements Having Tongue And Groove | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189416 | Laminated Article And Method Of Forming Same | KRUER, KEVIN R | 46d overdue |
| 19101165 | LAMINATED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 46d overdue |
| 18146025 | BLADE GRINDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 25d overdue |
| 19228264 | Yarn With Sections Having Different Aesthetic Characteristics, Articles Comprising Same, And Methods Of Making Said Yarn And Articles | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 13d |
| 19671447 | TUFTED ARTICLES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | DURHAM, NATHAN E | — |
| 19034028 | Sloped Edge On Decorative Articles With A Rigid Base And A Decor That Is Digitally Printed Thereon | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18717119 | DECORATIVE ARTICLE DELIVERY DEVICE | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962186 | Fabrics, Surface Coverings Comprising Same, And Systems And Methods For Producing Same | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 71d overdue |
| 19189416 | Laminated Article And Method Of Forming Same | KRUER, KEVIN R | 46d overdue |
| 19101165 | LAMINATED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 46d overdue |
| 18146025 | BLADE GRINDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 25d overdue |
| 19228264 | Yarn With Sections Having Different Aesthetic Characteristics, Articles Comprising Same, And Methods Of Making Said Yarn And Articles | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 13d |
| 18713738 | ACOUSTIC ARTICLE, DECORATIVE ELEMENT, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 20d |
| 19671447 | TUFTED ARTICLES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | DURHAM, NATHAN E | — |
| 19065608 | Nonwoven Surface Covering Elements Having Tongue And Groove | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| 3635 | 2 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19671447 | TUFTED ARTICLES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | DURHAM, NATHAN E | 3732 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2026 |
| 19228264 | Yarn With Sections Having Different Aesthetic Characteristics, Articles Comprising Same, And Methods Of Making Said Yarn And Articles | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3732 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19189416 | Laminated Article And Method Of Forming Same | KRUER, KEVIN R | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19065608 | Nonwoven Surface Covering Elements Having Tongue And Groove | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19101165 | LAMINATED ARTICLE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME | WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
| 19034028 | Sloped Edge On Decorative Articles With A Rigid Base And A Decor That Is Digitally Printed Thereon | NGUYEN, CHI Q | 3635 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18936436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANK PROCESSING | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 3642 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18717119 | DECORATIVE ARTICLE DELIVERY DEVICE | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18713738 | ACOUSTIC ARTICLE, DECORATIVE ELEMENT, AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SAME | PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18146025 | BLADE GRINDING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MARKMAN, MAKENA | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 17962186 | Fabrics, Surface Coverings Comprising Same, And Systems And Methods For Producing Same | EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialShaw Industries Group Inc. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 10 examiners.
Chi Q Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Shaw Industries Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
