Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Vitro Flat Glass LLC

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
3
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (50%)
1
Easy (10%)
4
Unknown (40%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (50%)
§112 only1 (10%)
No statute on record4 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

8
Life Sciences
80% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HORGER, KIM S. 2 70.4% +19.7%
REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN 1 65.8% +23.3%
DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 1 61.8% +10.9%
COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON 1 70.0% +16.4%
WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE 1 73.8% +30.4%
MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1 71.4% +11.1%
PENCE, JETHRO M 1 78.8% +25.2%
CHEVALIER, ALICIA ANN 1 19.0% +13.9%
AHMED, SHEEBA 1 80.6% +14.2%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17504968 Heat-Treatable Coating with Blocking Layer Having Reduced Color Shift CHEVALIER, ALICIA ANN 46d overdue

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17504968 Heat-Treatable Coating with Blocking Layer Having Reduced Color Shift CHEVALIER, ALICIA ANN 46d overdue
17936446 Coating Having Solar Control Properties for a Substrate, and Method and System for Depositing Said Coating on the Substrate PENCE, JETHRO M 31d overdue
17241905 Protected Substrate and Method for Protecting a Substrate AHMED, SHEEBA 3d overdue
18130932 Electrochromic Devices and Compositions Including Cathodic Zwitterions MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 9d
18942943 Insulating Glass Unit Viewing Stand REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN 21d
18985246 Solar Control Coating With Enhanced Solar Heat Gain HORGER, KIM S. 34d
18649108 Solar Control Coating With Discontinuous Metal Layer COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON 41d
18779901 Compositions for Etching Glass and Methods of Etching Glass Using the Compositions DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 62d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1784 3
3735 1
1741 1
3635 1
1734 1
1717 1
1788 1
1787 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18985246 Solar Control Coating With Enhanced Solar Heat Gain HORGER, KIM S. 1784 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Dec 18, 2024
18942943 Insulating Glass Unit Viewing Stand REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN 3735 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Nov 11, 2024
18779901 Compositions for Etching Glass and Methods of Etching Glass Using the Compositions DEHGHAN, QUEENIE S 1741 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Jul 22, 2024
18649108 Solar Control Coating With Discontinuous Metal Layer COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON 1784 Other Non-Final OA 41d Pending Apr 29, 2024
18505435 Window for Reducing Bird Collisions WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE 3635 §112 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Nov 09, 2023
18244958 Reflective Coating HORGER, KIM S. 1784 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18130932 Electrochromic Devices and Compositions Including Cathodic Zwitterions MCDONOUGH, JAMES E 1734 Other Non-Final OA 9d Pending Apr 05, 2023
17936446 Coating Having Solar Control Properties for a Substrate, and Method and System for Depositing Said Coating on the Substrate PENCE, JETHRO M 1717 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2022
17504968 Heat-Treatable Coating with Blocking Layer Having Reduced Color Shift CHEVALIER, ALICIA ANN 1788 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2021
17241905 Protected Substrate and Method for Protecting a Substrate AHMED, SHEEBA 1787 Other Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2021

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