Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
15 pending office actions • 3 clients • 12 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Sherwin-Williams-Tucker Ellis LLP operates in the Chemistry & Materials technology area with 12659 career applications. The firm has maintained a resolved allowance rate pct of 85.41. There are 13 pending office actions currently active. The 12659 career applications demonstrate a commitment to the chemistry sector.
The average office actions per allowance for this firm is 3.39. This figure helps practitioners understand the typical prosecution cycle for Chemistry & Materials patents. The 85.41 resolved allowance rate pct reflects an ability to secure patent grants for its clients across 12659 career applications. With 13 pending office actions, the firm continues to navigate the examination process. These metrics together provide a comprehensive overview of the firm's historical success and its current operational status within its primary technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 (53%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (33%) |
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 | 51.5% | +50.4% |
| ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 2 | 45.3% | +37.8% |
| WHITELEY, JESSICA | 1 | 88.6% | +7.0% |
| POWERS, LAURA C | 1 | 56.3% | +47.5% |
| TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | 1 | 83.6% | +18.9% |
| BARZACH, JEFFREY EUGENE | 1 | 57.1% | +40.6% |
| KUVAYSKAYA, ANASTASIA ALEKSEYEVNA | 1 | 72.3% | +36.1% |
| RICE, STEVEN | 1 | 39.3% | +43.7% |
| FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1 | 61.6% | +17.2% |
| MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 1 | 55.5% | +50.9% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16825153 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 13d |
| 18858061 | LIDAR-VISIBLE COATING SYSTEM | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| 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 | — |
| 18042330 | MODIFIED POLYCARBODIIMIDE COMPOUND, COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE | FIGG, TRAVIS M | — |
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 |
| 16070115 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 9d |
| 16825153 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 13d |
| 18042321 | COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE INCLUDING COATING FORMED BY THE COATING COMPOSITION | MILLER, BETHANY MACKENZIE | 19d |
| 18858061 | LIDAR-VISIBLE COATING SYSTEM | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SWIMC LLC | 9 |
| Sherwin-Williams | 5 |
| Sherwin-Willams (Guandgdong) New Material Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1731 | 3 |
| 1717 | 3 |
| 1787 | 2 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| 1766 | 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 | 1712 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18858061 | LIDAR-VISIBLE COATING SYSTEM | Swimc LLC | POWERS, LAURA C | 1785 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18774227 | PROCESS LINE CHANGEOVER | Swimc LLC | TANG, MICHAEL XUEFEI | §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 | §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 |
| 18042330 | MODIFIED POLYCARBODIIMIDE COMPOUND, COATING COMPOSITION AND COATED ARTICLE | Sherwin-Williams (Guangdong) New Materials Co., Ltd. | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 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 |
| 17664998 | ACID CATALYZED WATERBORNE RESIN | Swimc LLC | STONEHOCKER, VIRGINIA LEE | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 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 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2020 |
| 16825153 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | Swimc LLC | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Mar 20, 2020 |
| 16070115 | COATING COMPOSITION FOR SURFACE TEMPERATURE REDUCTION | The Sherwin-Williams Company | ABU ALI, SHUANGYI | 1731 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 13, 2018 |
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