Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. currently faces 12 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are spread across 11 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units. Kim S. Horger is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 2 pending actions. The distribution of 11 examiners for 12 actions indicates that prosecution is decentralized, with nearly every action assigned to a different individual.
The presence of 7 distinct art units suggests a range of materials science applications within the pending portfolio. Practitioners must be prepared to address the specific technical standards and procedural nuances of 7 different units. Because Horger only manages 2 pending actions, no single examiner holds a large portion of the company's active cases. This spread across 11 examiners and 7 art units requires a flexible prosecution strategy to account for varying examiner interpretations. The 12 pending office actions represent a workload that is distributed widely across the patent office's chemistry-focused divisions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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. | 2 | 70.7% | +20.0% |
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 1 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.6% |
| REYNOLDS, STEVEN ALAN | 1 | 65.9% | +23.3% |
| WANG, XIAOBEI | 1 | 65.4% | +48.3% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.7% | +20.7% |
| COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1 | 69.9% | +16.1% |
| VU, PHU | 1 | 85.3% | +9.8% |
| UTT, ETHAN A | 1 | 47.8% | +41.2% |
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
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 |
| 18505435 | Window for Reducing Bird Collisions | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 70d |
| 19018032 | Low Thermal Conducting Spacer Assembly for an Insulating Glazing Unit | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — |
| 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1784 | 2 |
| 1717 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19018032 | Low Thermal Conducting Spacer Assembly for an Insulating Glazing Unit | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 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 | — | §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 |
| 18593298 | Antireflective Coating for Automotive Applications | HORGER, KIM S. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 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 |
| 18505435 | Window for Reducing Bird Collisions | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
| 18128579 | Article Coated by a Multi-Layer Coating Stack | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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