Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. has 9 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 9 examiners across 5 art units, indicating that each matter has a distinct examiner while several matters are grouped within the same art units.
HORGER, KIM S. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should emphasize portfolio coordination and art-unit issue mapping rather than relying on a single-examiner relationship for prosecution management.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORGER, KIM S. | 1 | 70.4% | +20.6% |
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 1 | 65.3% | +48.2% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.4% | +19.8% |
| COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1 | 69.8% | +16.2% |
| VU, PHU | 1 | 85.1% | +10.1% |
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 48.1% | +40.6% |
| AUER, LAURA A | 1 | 49.9% | +34.2% |
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.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942943 | Insulating Glass Unit Viewing Stand | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 21d |
| 18976425 | Functional Coating With Improved Thermal Stress Properties | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| 18807788 | Protective Layer Over a Functional Coating | WANG, XIAOBEI | — |
| 18624718 | Privacy Glass | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18388332 | Features for Window Unit for Reducing Bird Collisions | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18942943 | Insulating Glass Unit Viewing Stand | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 21d |
| 18985246 | Solar Control Coating With Enhanced Solar Heat Gain | HORGER, KIM S. | 34d |
| 18976425 | Functional Coating With Improved Thermal Stress Properties | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| 18807788 | Protective Layer Over a Functional Coating | WANG, XIAOBEI | — |
| 18636404 | Durable Coated Article Having a Metal Layer | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | — |
| 18624718 | Privacy Glass | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | — |
| 18439238 | Semi-Transparent Mirror | VU, PHU | — |
| 18388332 | Features for Window Unit for Reducing Bird Collisions | UTT, ETHAN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 3 |
| 1717 | 2 |
| 1783 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985246 | Solar Control Coating With Enhanced Solar Heat Gain | HORGER, KIM S. | 1784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18976425 | Functional Coating With Improved Thermal Stress Properties | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1717 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18942943 | Insulating Glass Unit Viewing Stand | REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 3735 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18807788 | Protective Layer Over a Functional Coating | WANG, XIAOBEI | 1784 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18636404 | Durable Coated Article Having a Metal Layer | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18624718 | Privacy Glass | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18439238 | Semi-Transparent Mirror | VU, PHU | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18388332 | Features for Window Unit for Reducing Bird Collisions | UTT, ETHAN A | 1783 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18347902 | Gray Glass Having Low Light Transmission | AUER, LAURA A | 1783 | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVitro, S.A.B. de C.V. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 9 examiners.
Kim S. Horger has the most, with 1 of Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
