Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
12 pending office actions • 3 clients • 10 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sherwin-Williams-Tucker Ellis LLP has 11 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials and 12720 career applications. The data reflects an active chemistry and materials workload alongside a large application history.
The resolved allowance rate is 85.41%, and allowed matters averaged 3.38 office actions per allowance. The rate supplies an outcome measure for resolved matters, while the action average describes examination activity before allowance. Practitioners can use the figures to consider current docket attention, historical results, and the response activity associated with allowed matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 8 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 3 | 51.6% | +50.4% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.1% |
| AHMED, SHEEBA | 1 | 80.6% | +14.5% |
| DICUS, TAMRA | 1 | 30.4% | +21.3% |
| TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 1 | 83.6% | +18.9% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 56.9% | +39.2% |
| KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1 | 71.9% | +31.3% |
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1 | 55.1% | +49.9% |
| NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1 | 56.6% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19059629 | MULTI-COMPONENT DIRECT TO METAL AND PLASTIC PRIMER SYSTEM | WHITELEY, JESSICA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
| 18661800 | WATERBORNE ACRYLIC RESIN CONTAINING INORGANIC CROSSLINKING AGENT, LATEX CONTAINING THE SAME AND COATINGS FORMED FROM THE SAME | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16959089 | AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE-ACRYLIC ACID-VINYL CHLORIDE TERPOLYMER FOR PREPARATION OF BARRIER COATING ON WOOD SUBSTRATES | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 22d overdue |
| 18037711 | SEALING PRIMER FOR WOODWARE AND ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SEALING PRIMER LAYER FORMED BY THE SEALING PRIMER | RICE, STEVEN | 10d overdue |
| 18021630 | WATERBORNE WOOD COATING COMPOSITION AND WOOD ARTICLE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 6d |
| 18042321 | COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE INCLUDING COATING FORMED BY THE COATING COMPOSITION | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 19d |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | AHMED, SHEEBA | — |
| 18882839 | UV CURABLE COATINGS SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED SCRATCH RESISTANCE | DICUS, TAMRA | — |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
| 18661800 | WATERBORNE ACRYLIC RESIN CONTAINING INORGANIC CROSSLINKING AGENT, LATEX CONTAINING THE SAME AND COATINGS FORMED FROM THE SAME | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SWIMC LLC | 8 |
| Sherwin-Williams | 3 |
| Sherwin-Willams (Guandgdong) New Material Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1787 | 4 |
| 1717 | 3 |
| 1763 | 2 |
| 1731 | 2 |
| 2115 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19059629 | MULTI-COMPONENT DIRECT TO METAL AND PLASTIC PRIMER SYSTEM | Swimc LLC | WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18867549 | COATINGS COMPRISING NAD POLYMERS WITH VOLATILE SILOXANE | Swimc LLC | AHMED, SHEEBA | 1787 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18882839 | UV CURABLE COATINGS SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED SCRATCH RESISTANCE | Swimc LLC | DICUS, TAMRA | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | Swimc LLC | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 2115 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18661800 | WATERBORNE ACRYLIC RESIN CONTAINING INORGANIC CROSSLINKING AGENT, LATEX CONTAINING THE SAME AND COATINGS FORMED FROM THE SAME | Swimc LLC | BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18567815 | COLORED TRANSLUCENT SEALANT COMPOSITION | Swimc LLC | KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1731 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18555108 | METHOD OF CURING A WATERBORNE COATING | Swimc LLC | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
| 18037711 | SEALING PRIMER FOR WOODWARE AND ARTICLE CONTAINING THE SEALING PRIMER LAYER FORMED BY THE SEALING PRIMER | Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. | RICE, STEVEN | 1787 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | May 18, 2023 |
| 18042321 | COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE INCLUDING COATING FORMED BY THE COATING COMPOSITION | Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1787 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18021630 | WATERBORNE WOOD COATING COMPOSITION AND WOOD ARTICLE MANUFACTURED THEREFROM | Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Feb 16, 2023 |
| 17872079 | CONCENTRATED SURFACE TREATMENT PRODUCT AND METHOD OF PREPARING, PACKAGING AND APPLYING | Swimc LLC | NERANGIS, VICKEY M | 1763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2022 |
| 16959089 | AQUEOUS DISPERSION OF VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE-ACRYLIC ACID-VINYL CHLORIDE TERPOLYMER FOR PREPARATION OF BARRIER COATING ON WOOD SUBSTRATES | Sherwin-Willams (Guandgdong) New Material Co., Ltd. | WALTERS JR, ROBERT S | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial85.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sherwin-Williams-Tucker Ellis LLP were allowed, across 12,720 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
12 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 10 examiners in 5 art units.
