Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Azek Group LLC has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, so the current prosecution activity is distributed across separate examination settings.
CHEN, VIVIAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No repeated examiner or art-unit assignment appears in the profile.
The data supports direct management of each matter, with portfolio-level review limited to maintaining consistent technical disclosures and identifying related claim themes. Examiner-specific preparation remains more relevant than a strategy based on a shared examination relationship.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, VIVIAN | 1 | 56.6% | +28.5% |
| KAISER, SYED M | 1 | 86.1% | +6.7% |
| LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1 | 66.2% | +35.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19347096 | COMPOSITE BOARD INCLUDING CORE AND CAPSTOCK, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | CHEN, VIVIAN | 3d overdue |
| 18537425 | VARIEGATED POLYMER-BASED MATERIALS | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 71d |
| 18818305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING FEATURES OF A STRUCTURE | KAISER, SYED 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19347096 | COMPOSITE BOARD INCLUDING CORE AND CAPSTOCK, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | CHEN, VIVIAN | 3d overdue |
| 18537425 | VARIEGATED POLYMER-BASED MATERIALS | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 1744 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19347096 | COMPOSITE BOARD INCLUDING CORE AND CAPSTOCK, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | CHEN, VIVIAN | 1787 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2025 |
| 18818305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING FEATURES OF A STRUCTURE | KAISER, SYED M | 2637 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18537425 | VARIEGATED POLYMER-BASED MATERIALS | LEYSON, JOSEPH S | 1744 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Azek Group LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Vivian Chen has the most, with 1 of The Azek Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
