Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dormakaba Schweiz AG maintains 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution also involves a count of distinct art units that matches the number of examiners. IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD is the busiest examiner, though he currently manages only 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, VERNAL U | 2 | 69.6% | +13.5% |
| IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 81.4% | -5.7% |
| BOTELLO, FABIAN | 1 | 85.7% | +25.0% |
| TUN, NAY L | 1 | 64.9% | +31.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527136 | UWB LOCALIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD | BOTELLO, FABIAN | 5d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121311 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTROMECHANICAL LOCKING DEVICE | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 3d overdue |
| 18250342 | ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE AND SYSTEM | TUN, NAY L | 84d |
| 18846898 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SECURING A PASSAGEWAY | BROWN, VERNAL U | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18527136 | UWB LOCALIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD | BOTELLO, FABIAN | 5d overdue |
| 18250342 | ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE AND SYSTEM | TUN, NAY L | 84d |
| 19121319 | METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING AN ELECTROMECHANICAL LOCKING DEVICE | BROWN, VERNAL U | — |
| 18846898 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SECURING A PASSAGEWAY | BROWN, VERNAL U | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 2 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121319 | METHOD FOR COMMISSIONING AN ELECTROMECHANICAL LOCKING DEVICE | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19121311 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTROMECHANICAL LOCKING DEVICE | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18846898 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SECURING A PASSAGEWAY | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18527136 | UWB LOCALIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD | BOTELLO, FABIAN | 2648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18250342 | ACCESS CONTROL DEVICE AND SYSTEM | TUN, NAY L | 2688 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
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