Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Assa Abloy Accessories And Door Controls Group Inc. maintains 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting some overlap in the technical classifications of the applications.
The portfolio involves 5 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different person. PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner currently manages more than 1 of the 5 total pending actions. The 3 art units handle all current matters.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 1 | 56.3% | +9.4% |
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 54.9% | +37.8% |
| LUO, DAVID S | 1 | 90.5% | +6.6% |
| STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 1 | 56.5% | +80.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814738 | DOOR SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED INSTALLATION, SET-UP, AND CLONING | LUO, DAVID S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520732 | DOOR CLOSER AND ASSIST SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 34d |
| 18938675 | DOGGING MECHANISM FOR EXIT DEVICES | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 75d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18520732 | DOOR CLOSER AND ASSIST SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 34d |
| 18938675 | DOGGING MECHANISM FOR EXIT DEVICES | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 75d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 2 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183430 | DOOR SHOE | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18938675 | DOGGING MECHANISM FOR EXIT DEVICES | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18814738 | DOOR SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED INSTALLATION, SET-UP, AND CLONING | LUO, DAVID S | 2846 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18520732 | DOOR CLOSER AND ASSIST SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 3634 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAssa Abloy Accessories And Door Controls Group Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Patrick Bernas Ponciano has the most, with 1 of Assa Abloy Accessories And Door Controls Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
