Technology area: Networking & Security
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Emhart Glass SA currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Networking & Security technology area. These matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current networking-related filings. The placement within a single art unit suggests a consistent examination environment for the company's current portfolio.
The prosecution of these 2 actions involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. The busiest examiner for the company is DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution means that the company's current workload is split between the two examiners involved, requiring separate strategies for each official.
For practitioners, the concentration of 2 pending office actions in a single art unit allows for a focused understanding of that group's examination standards. However, since each action is handled by a different examiner, prosecution strategies must still be customized to the individual requirements of DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D and the other official. This structure suggests a specialized but decentralized prosecution environment for the company's current Networking & Security filings.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | 1 | 83.6% | +15.4% |
| BILLAH, MASUM | 1 | 80.7% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821261 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Containers | BILLAH, MASUM | 5d overdue |
| 19073161 | Camera Device for a Glass Forming Machine | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821261 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Containers | BILLAH, MASUM | 5d overdue |
| 19073161 | Camera Device for a Glass Forming Machine | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2486 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19073161 | Camera Device for a Glass Forming Machine | DAGNEW, MEKONNEN D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18821261 | Apparatus and Method for Inspecting Containers | BILLAH, MASUM | 2486 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialEmhart Glass SA has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Mekonnen D Dagnew has the most, with 1 of Emhart Glass SA's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
