Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Assa Abloy Fenestration LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and the same number of art units. This indicates that the company's active patent applications are being reviewed by separate technical groups. MORGAN, EMILY M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action.
With a total of 2 pending actions, this examiner is responsible for a portion of the active workload. The presence of 2 examiners and multiple art units reflects a decentralized prosecution profile within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Practitioners should be prepared to handle separate examination processes, as each matter is being evaluated independently by different personnel. This structure suggests that the company's current innovations are spread across different sub-sectors of mechanical systems. Each pending action represents a unique path toward patent issuance, requiring a strategy that addresses the unique concerns of each examiner in their respective art units. The alignment of examiners to art units ensures that each application receives a specialized review.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN, EMILY M | 1 | 35.5% | +33.0% |
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18946476 | Window Balance Assembly And Mounting Bracket Therefor | MORGAN, EMILY M | 23d |
| 18657194 | SWING DOOR HANDLE AND ESCUTCHEON | LUGO, CARLOS | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946476 | Window Balance Assembly And Mounting Bracket Therefor | MORGAN, EMILY M | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18657194 | SWING DOOR HANDLE AND ESCUTCHEON | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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