Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
14 pending office actions • 11 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
United States Gypsum Company manages a substantial portfolio with 14 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is highly distributed, involving 13 distinct examiners across 11 distinct art units, which implies a diverse range of chemical and material science applications. This high number of distinct art units suggests that the company's filings span multiple specialized technical classifications within the broader chemistry sector. ADAM G BARLOW acts as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions.
With 13 distinct examiners involved in 14 pending actions, the workload is almost entirely unique to each examiner, requiring practitioners to adapt to many different examining styles. The 11 distinct art units further indicate that the company must navigate a wide variety of internal patent office policies and technical standards. This decentralized structure means that the outcome of one office action is unlikely to have a direct procedural impact on others, given the high number of distinct examiners and art units involved. The 14 pending office actions represent a significant and varied commitment to securing intellectual property within the Chemistry & Materials field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 (43%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARLOW, ADAM G | 1 | 70.8% | +19.6% |
| LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | 1 | 76.1% | +28.2% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.6% | +28.0% |
| VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1 | 52.0% | +43.6% |
| SADLON, JOSEPH | 1 | 63.4% | +26.5% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +24.9% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.2% |
| HOWELL, MARC C | 1 | 68.7% | +24.5% |
| DODDS, SCOTT | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.6% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670595 | Single-Layer, High-Caliper Basemats and Fibrous Panels Including Same | AHMED, SHEEBA | 62d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670621 | Process for Manufacturing Acoustical Panel | DODDS, SCOTT | 89d overdue |
| 18890088 | ENHANCED FASTENER PATTERN FOR IMPROVED SHEAR CAPACITY IN WALLS | BARLOW, ADAM G | — |
| 18804466 | SYNTHETIC GYPSUM FILLER BASED JOINT COMPOUND WITH LOW COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION | LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | — |
| 18660717 | CEMENT PANEL AND METHOD TO ELIMINATE RELEASE PAPER FROM CEMENT PANEL MANUFACTURE | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — |
| 17937115 | FABRIC REINFORCEMENT FOR IMPROVING CEMENT BOARD FLEXURAL STRENGTH AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | — |
| 18625779 | ALKALI METAL POLYBORATE SILICATE COATING FOR ACOUSTICAL PANEL AND GYPSUM BOARD | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670621 | Process for Manufacturing Acoustical Panel | DODDS, SCOTT | 89d overdue |
| 16783856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURE OF JOINT COMPOUND | HOWELL, MARC C | 36d overdue |
| 18060384 | BUILDING WITH NONCOMBUSTIBLE EXTERIOR STRUCTURAL WALL | SADLON, JOSEPH | 61d |
| 18670595 | Single-Layer, High-Caliper Basemats and Fibrous Panels Including Same | AHMED, SHEEBA | 62d |
| 18890088 | ENHANCED FASTENER PATTERN FOR IMPROVED SHEAR CAPACITY IN WALLS | BARLOW, ADAM G | — |
| 18804466 | SYNTHETIC GYPSUM FILLER BASED JOINT COMPOUND WITH LOW COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION | LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | — |
| 18769040 | COMPOSITE GYPSUM BOARD AND METHODS RELATED THERETO | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| 18660717 | CEMENT PANEL AND METHOD TO ELIMINATE RELEASE PAPER FROM CEMENT PANEL MANUFACTURE | VONCH, JEFFREY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 3 |
| 1731 | 2 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18890088 | ENHANCED FASTENER PATTERN FOR IMPROVED SHEAR CAPACITY IN WALLS | BARLOW, ADAM G | 3633 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18804466 | SYNTHETIC GYPSUM FILLER BASED JOINT COMPOUND WITH LOW COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION | LOUGHRAN, RYAN PATRICK | 1731 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18769040 | COMPOSITE GYPSUM BOARD AND METHODS RELATED THERETO | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1783 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18660717 | CEMENT PANEL AND METHOD TO ELIMINATE RELEASE PAPER FROM CEMENT PANEL MANUFACTURE | VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1781 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18060384 | BUILDING WITH NONCOMBUSTIBLE EXTERIOR STRUCTURAL WALL | SADLON, JOSEPH | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 61d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17937115 | FABRIC REINFORCEMENT FOR IMPROVING CEMENT BOARD FLEXURAL STRENGTH AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME | IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1789 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2022 |
| 16904779 | COMPOSITE GYPSUM BOARD FORMED FROM HIGH-SALT STUCCO AND RELATED METHODS | KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2020 |
| 16783856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURE OF JOINT COMPOUND | HOWELL, MARC C | 1774 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2020 |
| 18670621 | Process for Manufacturing Acoustical Panel | DODDS, SCOTT | 1746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18670595 | Single-Layer, High-Caliper Basemats and Fibrous Panels Including Same | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18625779 | ALKALI METAL POLYBORATE SILICATE COATING FOR ACOUSTICAL PANEL AND GYPSUM BOARD | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18444832 | SOILING SOLUTION | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1781 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2024 |
| 18219467 | TILE EDGE COATING APPARATUS AND METHOD COMPRISING SAME | KURPLE, KARL | 1798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
| 17443319 | High Acoustic and Low Density Basemat | MATZEK, MATTHEW D | 1786 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialUnited States Gypsum Company has 14 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 14 examiners.
Adam G Barlow has the most, with 1 of United States Gypsum Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
