Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: KRUER, KEVIN R

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 1746 1787 1794 2893 3649

This examiner grants 27% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

26.6%
Allow Rate
-25.4% vs TC avg
853
Total Applications
+29.6%
Interview Lift
1690
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 798 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.5%
§101 Eligibility
15.2%
§102 Novelty
51.3%
§103 Obviousness
30.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18226915 DOWNHOLE ELECTRONICS ENCAPSULATION AGAINST GAS INVASION Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17612570 Electroluminescent Device and Display Apparatus Non-Final OA BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
17615908 ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE Final Rejection LG CHEM, LTD.
17269226 ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE Non-Final OA LG CHEM, LTD.
17925326 DISPLAY DEVICE Non-Final OA SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17928953 Hard Coat Compositions and Composite Films Including a Thermoplastic Polyurethane Non-Final OA 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
19189416 Laminated Article And Method Of Forming Same Non-Final OA Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
17338772 RELEASE FILM Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
17789015 RELEASE-LINERED SEALANT SHEET Non-Final OA NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
18294942 ARTICLE HAVING WATER- AND OIL-REPELLENT SURFACE LAYER Non-Final OA SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
18991163 FIRE-RESISTANT ADHESIVES AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS Non-Final OA BMIC LLC
18151390 CONDUCTIVE MEMBER, TRANSFER DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Final Rejection FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
18569154 COMPOSITE FILMS FOR MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPONENTS Non-Final OA Cytec Industries Inc.
16840366 NON-BACKED METALLIZED PET RADIANT BARRIER FACTORY BONDED TO CELLULOSIC SUBSTRATE Final Rejection LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
17804138 MULTILAYER COMPOSITE WITH THERMAL BARRIER PROPERTIES Final Rejection SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
18263686 RESIN COMPOSITION AND MULTILAYER BODY HAVING LAYER COMPOSED OF THE RESIN COMPOSITION Non-Final OA MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
18286891 BINDER COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A WOOD MATERIAL, AND WOOD MATERIAL Non-Final OA SWISS KRONO TEC AG
18640062 HYDROGEN-BONDING SURFACES FOR ICE MITIGATION Non-Final OA United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
18572624 PACKAGING FILM HAVING OXYGEN BARRIER Non-Final OA AMCOR FLEXIBLES NORTH AMERICA, INC.
18285167 LAMINATE, RELEASE AGENT COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PROCESSED SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE Final Rejection NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
18704646 LAMINATE AND LAMINATE PRODUCTION METHOD Non-Final OA JAPAN POLYETHYLENE CORPORATION
17420530 POLY(ESTER UREA) MICROCAPSULES Final Rejection FIRMENICH SA
17406741 ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT COMPOUND AND ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME Final Rejection ROHM AND HAAS ELECTRONIC MATERIALS KOREA LTD.
18574145 POLYPOSS-POLYIMIDE TWO WAY SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER ACTUATORS Non-Final OA Soreq Nuclear Research Center
18292343 TRANSLUCENT COATING SYSTEMS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE COATING SYSTEMS, AND USE OF THE COATING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA MANKIEWICZ GEBR. & CO. (GMBH & CO. KG)
18220087 METHOD FOR PERMANENTLY SEALING HOLES WITH OVERPRESSURE PROTECTION AND BONDING ELEMENT FOR THE METHOD Final Rejection tesa SE
17263298 METAL-POLYACETAL ASSEMBLY Non-Final OA DuPont Polymers, Inc.
17816591 FLEXIBLE COVER WINDOW WITH IMPROVED STRENGTH Non-Final OA UTI INC.
18286645 Heat Resistant Coating Composition Non-Final OA Akzo Nobel Coatings International B.V.
17785502 ADHESIVE COATING COMPOSITION FOR ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET, ELECTRICAL STEEL SHEET LAMINATE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME Final Rejection POSCO

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