Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This level of distribution suggests a diverse portfolio with multiple active matters across different technical sub-specialties. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for the pending actions means that every active matter is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring a broad range of prosecution tactics tailored to each examiner's specific style.
The busiest examiner, RICE, STEVEN, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents a single component of the 4 total pending office actions. Because the pending actions are handled by different examiners, the company must manage multiple separate examiner relationships simultaneously. Furthermore, the involvement of 3 distinct art units indicates that the prosecution strategy must account for varying standards and practices across these different administrative divisions. This decentralized structure suggests that the company is pursuing multiple distinct innovations within the Chemistry & Materials sector, rather than focusing on a single technological path.
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 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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% |
| FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1 | 61.6% | +17.2% |
| MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1 | 55.5% | +50.9% |
| WEISS, PAMELA HL | 1 | 54.9% | +45.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18042330 | MODIFIED POLYCARBODIIMIDE COMPOUND, COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE | FIGG, TRAVIS M | — |
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 4 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 |
| 18042330 | MODIFIED POLYCARBODIIMIDE COMPOUND, COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE | FIGG, TRAVIS M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 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 |
| 18042330 | MODIFIED POLYCARBODIIMIDE COMPOUND, COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 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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