Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Festool GmbH

11 pending office actions • 3 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

11
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
11
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (82%)
§102 only2 (18%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
9% of docket
10
Mechanical / Eng
91% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

110 h
Manual time on pending OAs
22 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
38 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 2 53.6% +21.0%
LEE, LAURA MICHELLE 2 54.8% +30.9%
MACFARLANE, EVAN H 1 50.1% +42.7%
DO, NHAT CHIEU Q 1 63.8% +48.4%
ROJAS, BERNARD 1 82.9% +7.9%
RILEY, JONATHAN G 1 51.9% +30.1%
PAYER, HWEI-SIU C 1 73.8% +30.1%
SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY 1 53.1% +29.3%
HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW 1 66.9% +36.8%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18252326 POWER TOOL, METHOD, ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM ROJAS, BERNARD 28d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17919643 BEVEL SAWS CONFIGURED TO MAKE A BEVEL CUT IN A WORKPIECE PAYER, HWEI-SIU C 91d overdue
17890334 SUCTION DEVICE HAVING A CLOSURE ELEMENT HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW 66d overdue
17652686 METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 45d overdue
18540030 Sawing device and saw assembly MACFARLANE, EVAN H 38d overdue
18162284 SAW DEVICE, STACK ARRANGEMENT, COVER ARRANGEMENT, TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD LEE, LAURA MICHELLE 25d overdue
17919618 HANDHELD CIRCULAR SAWS WITH IMPROVED CUTTING CAPABILITIES RILEY, JONATHAN G 8d overdue
18284348 SYSTEM HAVING A GUIDE RAIL AND A CARRYING DEVICE DO, NHAT CHIEU Q 5d
17908563 SANDING PAD HAVING A SEALING ELEMENT AND A RIB STRUCTURE, AND SANDING MACHINE SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3724 8
3723 2
2837 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18540030 Sawing device and saw assembly MACFARLANE, EVAN H 3724 §102 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18491371 SAWING APPARATUS AND ELECTRICAL ROTARY FEEDTHROUGH FOR A TOOL, IN PARTICULAR FOR A SAWING APPARATUS MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18284348 SYSTEM HAVING A GUIDE RAIL AND A CARRYING DEVICE DO, NHAT CHIEU Q 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18252326 POWER TOOL, METHOD, ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM ROJAS, BERNARD 2837 §102 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 09, 2023
18310785 Clamping device for a circular saw LEE, LAURA MICHELLE 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 02, 2023
18162284 SAW DEVICE, STACK ARRANGEMENT, COVER ARRANGEMENT, TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD LEE, LAURA MICHELLE 3724 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2023
17919618 HANDHELD CIRCULAR SAWS WITH IMPROVED CUTTING CAPABILITIES RILEY, JONATHAN G 3724 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17919643 BEVEL SAWS CONFIGURED TO MAKE A BEVEL CUT IN A WORKPIECE PAYER, HWEI-SIU C 3724 §103 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Oct 18, 2022
17908563 SANDING PAD HAVING A SEALING ELEMENT AND A RIB STRUCTURE, AND SANDING MACHINE SOTO, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY 3723 §103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Sep 01, 2022
17890334 SUCTION DEVICE HAVING A CLOSURE ELEMENT HOLIZNA, CALEB ANDREW 3723 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2022
17652686 METHOD AND FIXTURE FOR CUTTING A WORKPIECE MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S 3724 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Feb 26, 2022

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