Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dometic Sweden AB has 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, which means each examiner is reviewing one case. The portfolio is also distributed across 6 distinct art units. This reflects a situation where every pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different technical group.
FINCH III, FRED E is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly spread out. The involvement of 6 distinct art units indicates that the company's mechanical innovations span several different classifications. Practitioners must manage 6 separate prosecution tracks, as the 6 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units provide no overlap for the current pending actions. The data shows that FINCH III, FRED E is one of the 6 distinct examiners currently involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINCH III, FRED E | 1 | 80.2% | +17.2% |
| ZEC, FILIP | 1 | 65.7% | +13.9% |
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.8% | +19.2% |
| OMAR, AHMED H | 1 | 75.2% | +14.2% |
| AMRANY, ADI | 1 | 56.2% | +18.2% |
| WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 1 | 52.1% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099191 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466456 | Advanced Battery Bank and Management Thereof | OMAR, AHMED H | — |
| 18173516 | Power Controller | AMRANY, ADI | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17912162 | Heating Apparatus and Recreational Vehicle With Heating Apparatus | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 29d |
| 19099191 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | FINCH III, FRED E | — |
| 18768320 | PARKING COOLER | ZEC, FILIP | — |
| 18439008 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18466456 | Advanced Battery Bank and Management Thereof | OMAR, AHMED H | — |
| 18173516 | Power Controller | AMRANY, ADI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2838 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3799 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099191 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD | FINCH III, FRED E | 2838 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18768320 | PARKING COOLER | ZEC, FILIP | 3763 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18439008 | MOBILE AIR CONDITIONER | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18466456 | Advanced Battery Bank and Management Thereof | OMAR, AHMED H | 1752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18173516 | Power Controller | AMRANY, ADI | 2836 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 17912162 | Heating Apparatus and Recreational Vehicle With Heating Apparatus | WARD, THOMAS JOHN | 3761 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialDometic Sweden AB has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Fred E Finch III has the most, with 1 of Dometic Sweden AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
