Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
United States Gypsum Company maintains a patent portfolio with 15 pending office actions, primarily focused within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The distribution of these matters is broad, involving 13 distinct examiners across 9 distinct art units. This diversity suggests that the company's innovations span several specialized technical niches within the broader Chemistry & Materials sector.
The prosecution workload is relatively distributed, although BARLOW, ADAM G serves as the busiest examiner with 3 busiest examiner pending actions. This concentration represents a specific portion of the 15 total pending office actions, as other actions are spread among various examiners. Practitioners can expect to interact with a wide variety of art units, given that the 9 distinct art units involved are numerous.
The presence of 13 distinct examiners for 15 pending office actions indicates that most examiners are handling only a single matter for the company. This lack of examiner overlap across the 9 distinct art units may require tailored strategies for each individual application rather than a unified approach to a single examining group. Navigating this many distinct examiners requires a highly adaptable prosecution strategy.
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 | 3 | 70.9% | +19.6% |
| KHATRI, PRASHANT J | 1 | 61.4% | +28.0% |
| VONCH, JEFFREY A | 1 | 52.1% | +43.8% |
| IMANI, ELIZABETH MARY COLE | 1 | 33.5% | +25.0% |
| KHAN, TAHSEEN | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| HOWELL, MARC C | 1 | 68.6% | +24.7% |
| DODDS, SCOTT | 1 | 68.1% | +34.5% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.7% | +14.4% |
| KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1 | 72.3% | +36.1% |
| ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 1 | 54.2% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18885136 | GYPSUM STUDS ASSEMBLED BY ROLLING SCORED SEGMENTS | BARLOW, ADAM G | — |
| 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 |
| 16816596 | SHIPPING CONTAINER NONCOMBUSTIBLE BUILDING FIRE DESIGN | BARLOW, ADAM G | 37d overdue |
| 16783856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURE OF JOINT COMPOUND | HOWELL, MARC C | 36d overdue |
| 18444832 | SOILING SOLUTION | ZHANG, MICHAEL N | 8d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18885136 | GYPSUM STUDS ASSEMBLED BY ROLLING SCORED SEGMENTS | BARLOW, ADAM G | — |
| 18769040 | COMPOSITE GYPSUM BOARD AND METHODS RELATED THERETO | KHATRI, PRASHANT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 3 |
| 1781 | 3 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 1774 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 1787 | 1 |
| 1798 | 1 |
| 1786 | 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 |
| 18885136 | GYPSUM STUDS ASSEMBLED BY ROLLING SCORED SEGMENTS | BARLOW, ADAM G | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 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 |
| 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 |
| 16816596 | SHIPPING CONTAINER NONCOMBUSTIBLE BUILDING FIRE DESIGN | BARLOW, ADAM G | 3633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 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 | — | §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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