Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shaw Industries Group Inc. manages a company patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio contains 10 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 9 distinct examiners across 5 distinct art units. NGUYEN, CHI Q is the busiest examiner, holding 2 pending actions. The presence of 10 pending office actions suggests a steady volume of ongoing prosecution within the chemistry sector.
The distribution of 10 pending office actions among 9 distinct examiners indicates that examiner concentration is low. However, the 5 distinct art units suggest that the company's chemistry-related filings are being reviewed by several different technical groups. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the varied requirements of 5 art units and 9 distinct examiners. Practitioners should monitor the 2 pending actions with the busiest examiner while coordinating across the identified technical groups. This structure ensures that the company's innovations are evaluated by a diverse set of examiner perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 2 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| KRUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 26.8% | +29.4% |
| WEYDEMEYER, ETHAN | 1 | 44.2% | +44.5% |
| MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | 1 | 69.9% | +24.0% |
| NOLAN, PETER D | 1 | 75.4% | +19.5% |
| STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 1 | 85.8% | +12.7% |
| PHILLIPS, FORREST M | 1 | 83.2% | +14.2% |
| MARKMAN, MAKENA | 1 | 59.8% | +38.6% |
| EMRICH, LARISSA ROWE | 1 | 48.3% | +41.8% |
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 6 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 |
| 19034028 | Sloped Edge On Decorative Articles With A Rigid Base And A Decor That Is Digitally Printed Thereon | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18834884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING AND CHARACTERIZING ERGONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF FLOORING | NOLAN, PETER D | — |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 19034028 | Sloped Edge On Decorative Articles With A Rigid Base And A Decor That Is Digitally Printed Thereon | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18936436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANK PROCESSING | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18936436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANK PROCESSING | MUDD, HENRY HOOPER | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18834884 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING AND CHARACTERIZING ERGONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF FLOORING | NOLAN, PETER D | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18717119 | DECORATIVE ARTICLE DELIVERY DEVICE | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | — | §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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