Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
19 pending office actions • 10 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swimc LLC has 18 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The portfolio reaches 17 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the examining organization. This structure suggests that prosecution strategy cannot rely on a single examiner relationship or a uniform art-unit practice.
DAVIS, ZACHARY M is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The limited concentration at that examiner, combined with the wider spread across art units, supports centralized docket control paired with claim and amendment review tailored to each assigned examiner.
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 | 6 (32%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 2 | 70.3% | +30.2% |
| FOSS, DAVID ROGER | 1 | 74.2% | +33.9% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.1% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.6% | +14.5% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.4% | +21.3% |
| TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 1 | 83.6% | +18.9% |
| ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 1 | 72.0% | +29.6% |
| ZHANG, HAI Y | 1 | 69.0% | +41.8% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 56.9% | +39.2% |
| KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1 | 71.9% | +31.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059629 | MULTI-COMPONENT DIRECT TO METAL AND PLASTIC PRIMER SYSTEM | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18310732 | SILICONE-MODIFIED POLYESTER COATING | ZIMMER, MARC S | 103d overdue |
| 18289785 | METHODS OF COATING METAL SUBSTRATES AND MAKING METAL PACKAGING, COATED METAL SUBSTRATES, METAL PACKAGING, AND POWDER COATING COMPOSITION SYSTEMS | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 55d |
| 19028614 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEXTURED COATING | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | — |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18817677 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | — |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
| 18747590 | EPOXY COATING COMPOSITIONS | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — |
| 18717952 | VIRTUAL EMBOSSING ON COIL COATING | ZHANG, HAI Y | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19213441 | CORROSION-RESISTANT PRIMER AND TOPCOAT COMPOSITION | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | — |
| 19028614 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEXTURED COATING | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | — |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18882839 | UV CURABLE COATINGS SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED SCRATCH RESISTANCE | DICUS, TAMRA | — |
| 18817677 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | — |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
| 18747590 | EPOXY COATING COMPOSITIONS | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — |
| 18717952 | VIRTUAL EMBOSSING ON COIL COATING | ZHANG, HAI Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1764 | 3 |
| 1763 | 3 |
| 1783 | 2 |
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1717 | 2 |
| 1731 | 2 |
| 1712 | 2 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19213441 | CORROSION-RESISTANT PRIMER AND TOPCOAT COMPOSITION | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | 1764 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19059629 | MULTI-COMPONENT DIRECT TO METAL AND PLASTIC PRIMER SYSTEM | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19028614 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEXTURED COATING | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18882839 | UV CURABLE COATINGS SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED SCRATCH RESISTANCE | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18817677 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES | DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 1783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 2115 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18747590 | EPOXY COATING COMPOSITIONS | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18717952 | VIRTUAL EMBOSSING ON COIL COATING | ZHANG, HAI Y | 1717 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18661800 | WATERBORNE ACRYLIC RESIN CONTAINING INORGANIC CROSSLINKING AGENT, LATEX CONTAINING THE SAME AND COATINGS FORMED FROM THE SAME | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18567815 | COLORED TRANSLUCENT SEALANT COMPOSITION | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18289785 | METHODS OF COATING METAL SUBSTRATES AND MAKING METAL PACKAGING, COATED METAL SUBSTRATES, METAL PACKAGING, AND POWDER COATING COMPOSITION SYSTEMS | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 55d | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18555108 | METHOD OF CURING A WATERBORNE COATING | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18282171 | CATECHOL CONTAINING POLYMER EMULSIONS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF | HUHN, RICHARD A | 1764 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
| 18237612 | STAIN-BLOCKING PAINTS, KITS, AND METHODS | JONES, KOLTON ED | 1763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18310732 | SILICONE-MODIFIED POLYESTER COATING | ZIMMER, MARC S | 1765 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 18139852 | METHODS FOR COATING FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONTAINERS AND OTHER ARTICLES | REDDY, KARUNA P | 1764 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 17872079 | CONCENTRATED SURFACE TREATMENT PRODUCT AND METHOD OF PREPARING, PACKAGING AND APPLYING | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 17651506 | POWDER COATING COMPOSITION | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSwimc LLC has 19 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 18 examiners.
Zachary M Davis has the most, with 2 of Swimc LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
