Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dormakaba Ead GmbH exhibits a distributed prosecution strategy within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is being handled independently by different personnel at the patent office.
MICHAEL J SINGLETARY is the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed without a single examiner handling multiple cases. This lack of concentration suggests a diverse set of applications within the portfolio's current active cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 1 | 83.7% | +6.0% |
| LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 1 | 68.2% | +46.9% |
| BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 1 | 9.4% | +10.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547441 | METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING A DOOR SYSTEM | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 74d overdue |
| 18547288 | DOOR SYSTEM FOR ONE OR MORE DOORS | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 15d overdue |
| 18085330 | ATTENDANCE RECORDING TERMINAL WITH USER-SPECIFIC INTERACTION | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547288 | DOOR SYSTEM FOR ONE OR MORE DOORS | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 15d overdue |
| 18085330 | ATTENDANCE RECORDING TERMINAL WITH USER-SPECIFIC INTERACTION | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18547441 | METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING A DOOR SYSTEM | SINGLETARY, MICHAEL J | 2857 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18547288 | DOOR SYSTEM FOR ONE OR MORE DOORS | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 2119 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2023 |
| 18085330 | ATTENDANCE RECORDING TERMINAL WITH USER-SPECIFIC INTERACTION | BOLEN, NICHOLAS D | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
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