Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Assa Abloy Accessories And Door Controls Group Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is with a different examiner. This distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the 3 pending office actions cover multiple technical aspects of the company's systems.
WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions, the company is dealing with 3 different individual perspectives. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners are different, they are working within a limited number of technical groups. Practitioners must manage the 3 pending office actions by addressing the specific concerns of each of the 3 distinct examiners in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
| SIDKY, YAHYA I | 1 | 76.1% | +23.1% |
| STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 1 | 56.4% | +80.4% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800536 | DOOR HOLDER AND RELEASE SYSTEM | SIDKY, YAHYA I | 46d overdue |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 2 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18938675 | DOGGING MECHANISM FOR EXIT DEVICES | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18800536 | DOOR HOLDER AND RELEASE SYSTEM | SIDKY, YAHYA I | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 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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