Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
21 pending office actions • 10 art units • 21 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Swimc LLC currently has 20 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These 20 actions are handled by 20 distinct examiners. These matters are distributed across 10 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is FOSS, DAVID ROGER, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 20 pending office actions and 20 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed with no examiner overlap. The 10 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's chemistry and materials innovations are being reviewed in 10 different specialized sections of the patent office. This broad distribution across 10 art units and 20 examiners suggests a range of chemical technologies that require specialized review from many different experts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 7 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (52%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSS, DAVID ROGER | 1 | 74.0% | +34.5% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.0% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.7% | +14.4% |
| POWERS, LAURA C | 1 | 56.3% | +47.5% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.5% | +21.4% |
| DAVIS, ZACHARY M | 1 | 70.0% | +30.5% |
| TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 1 | 83.6% | +18.9% |
| ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 1 | 71.8% | +29.9% |
| ZHANG, HAI Y | 1 | 68.7% | +42.6% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 57.1% | +40.6% |
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 |
| 16825153 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 13d |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18858061 | LIDAR-VISIBLE COATING SYSTEM | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18858061 | LIDAR-VISIBLE COATING SYSTEM | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 2 |
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1717 | 2 |
| 1731 | 2 |
| 1764 | 2 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1737 | 1 |
| 1765 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19213441 | CORROSION-RESISTANT PRIMER AND TOPCOAT COMPOSITION | FOSS, DAVID ROGER | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19059629 | MULTI-COMPONENT DIRECT TO METAL AND PLASTIC PRIMER SYSTEM | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1712 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18858061 | LIDAR-VISIBLE COATING SYSTEM | POWERS, LAURA C | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18747590 | EPOXY COATING COMPOSITIONS | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18561973 | POLYESTER COPOLYMER AND COATING COMPOSITIONS THEREFROM HAVING IMPROVED CORROSION RESISTANCE | FROST, ANTHONY J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18290566 | METHODS OF COATING SUBSTRATES AND COATED SUBSTRATES | VAJDA, PETER L | 1737 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 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 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 14, 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 |
| 17664998 | ACID CATALYZED WATERBORNE RESIN | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17651506 | POWDER COATING COMPOSITION | VETERE, ROBERT A | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Feb 17, 2022 |
| 16825153 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Mar 20, 2020 |
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