Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, which indicates that each case is receiving an independent review. RICE, STEVEN is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
The administrative data shows that the company's prosecution is occurring within 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the technical subject matter is concentrated within a specific range of chemical classifications. For a practitioner, the use of 2 distinct art units means that the prosecution strategy must account for the specific standards of these 2 different divisions. The 3 pending office actions represent the total active pipeline for the company.
Because RICE, STEVEN handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the workload is distributed among the available officials. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio's outcomes are not dependent on the tendencies of this individual alone. Practitioners should monitor the feedback from each examiner to identify any common themes that may arise across the 3 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1 | 55.1% | +49.9% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.7% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18017687 | CHROMIUM-FREE ANTICORROSIVE COATING COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 35d overdue |
| 18037711 | SEALING PRIMER FOR WOODWARE AND ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SEALING PRIMER LAYER FORMED BY THE SEALING PRIMER | RICE, STEVEN | 10d overdue |
| 18042321 | COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE INCLUDING COATING FORMED BY THE COATING COMPOSITION | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18037711 | SEALING PRIMER FOR WOODWARE AND ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SEALING PRIMER LAYER FORMED BY THE SEALING PRIMER | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18042321 | COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE INCLUDING COATING FORMED BY THE COATING COMPOSITION | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18017687 | CHROMIUM-FREE ANTICORROSIVE COATING COMPOSITION AND ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM | WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Steven Rice has the most, with 1 of Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
