Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dormakaba Deutschland GmbH has 8 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of mechanical and system-related technologies. The company is working with 8 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a unique official. This distribution across 5 distinct art units suggests that the company must manage a wide variety of examiner perspectives.
AUBREY, BETH A is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. Because the 8 pending actions are spread among many examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed. This lack of concentration across the 8 total pending office actions ensures that no single examiner's individual style dominates the company's current prosecution landscape. For practitioners, this means that the pending office actions represent independent opportunities for success.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUBREY, BETH A | 1 | 80.6% | +17.0% |
| REID JR, CHARLES H | 1 | 69.0% | +24.3% |
| TRUONG, THOMAS | 1 | 73.4% | +15.8% |
| STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 1 | 56.4% | +80.4% |
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.2% | +22.3% |
| GLESSNER, BRIAN E | 1 | 35.7% | +26.3% |
| BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 1 | 65.5% | +14.9% |
| TAN, ALVIN H | 1 | 57.0% | +19.0% |
| MENEZES, MARCUS | 1 | 70.7% | +51.0% |
| LIANG, LEONARD S | 1 | 62.2% | +4.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18993284 | REVOLVING DOOR | AUBREY, BETH A | — |
| 18345457 | REVOLVING DOOR AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A REVOLVING DOOR | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| 18300058 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DOOR SYSTEM | TAN, ALVIN H | — |
| 17839926 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND/OR VERIFYING A STATUS OF A DOOR SYSTEM, METHOD FOR GENERATING A MODEL, STATUS DETERMINATION DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | LIANG, LEONARD S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18446974 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DOOR SYSTEMS, DOOR SYSTEM EQUIPPED THEREWITH AND OPERATING METHOD FOR SUCH A DOOR SYSTEM | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 92d overdue |
| 18057985 | PASSAGE DEVICE FOR ACCESS CONTROL AND/OR SEPARATION | MENEZES, MARCUS | 8d overdue |
| 18752150 | PERMANENT MAGNET ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AXIAL FLUX MACHINE OF A DOOR DRIVE AND AXIAL FLUX MACHINE | TRUONG, THOMAS | 28d |
| 18345474 | REVOLVING DOOR AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A REVOLVING DOOR | GLESSNER, BRIAN E | 83d |
| 18993284 | REVOLVING DOOR | AUBREY, BETH A | — |
| 18752256 | PERMANENT MAGNET ARRANGEMENT, AXIAL FLUX MACHINE AND ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVE | REID JR, CHARLES H | — |
| 18365010 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A DOOR ACTUATOR | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18345457 | REVOLVING DOOR AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A REVOLVING DOOR | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 3 |
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3634 | 2 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18993284 | REVOLVING DOOR | AUBREY, BETH A | 3633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18752256 | PERMANENT MAGNET ARRANGEMENT, AXIAL FLUX MACHINE AND ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVE | REID JR, CHARLES H | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18752150 | PERMANENT MAGNET ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AXIAL FLUX MACHINE OF A DOOR DRIVE AND AXIAL FLUX MACHINE | TRUONG, THOMAS | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18446974 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DOOR SYSTEMS, DOOR SYSTEM EQUIPPED THEREWITH AND OPERATING METHOD FOR SUCH A DOOR SYSTEM | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 92d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18365010 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A DOOR ACTUATOR | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18345474 | REVOLVING DOOR AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A REVOLVING DOOR | GLESSNER, BRIAN E | 3633 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18345457 | REVOLVING DOOR AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A REVOLVING DOOR | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18300058 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DOOR SYSTEM | TAN, ALVIN H | 2118 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 13, 2023 |
| 18057985 | PASSAGE DEVICE FOR ACCESS CONTROL AND/OR SEPARATION | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2022 |
| 17839926 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND/OR VERIFYING A STATUS OF A DOOR SYSTEM, METHOD FOR GENERATING A MODEL, STATUS DETERMINATION DEVICE, SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | LIANG, LEONARD S | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2022 |
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