Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Fidlock GmbH

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Fidlock GmbH currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution environment at this stage. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This concentration allows for a direct and singular focus on the requirements of the individual examiner involved.

Prosecution is currently limited to 0 distinct art units, reflecting a narrow focus for the company's active patent matters. With only 1 examiner and 1 pending action, the company's current interactions with the patent office are highly individualized. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW to advance this single pending matter. The absence of multiple art units or examiners simplifies the prosecution strategy for the company's current active portfolio.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

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
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% 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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW 1 56.5% +22.8%

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18877303 Holding Apparatus for Holding an Object on an Assembly LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18877303 Holding Apparatus for Holding an Object on an Assembly LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18877303 Holding Apparatus for Holding an Object on an Assembly LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024

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