Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Hunter Douglas Inc.

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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%)
5
Medium (83%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
2
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, PHI DIEU 1 65.6% +22.4%
CERLANEK, RACHEL ELIZABETH 1 96.4% -1.8%
HANES JR., JOHN 1 47.3% +40.1%
FIGG, LAURA B 1 57.3% +23.7%
RAMSEY, JEREMY C 1 52.3% +46.8%
POWERS, WILLIAM S 1 79.5% +2.6%

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
18692568 CONFIGURING AN ARCHITECTURAL COVERING GATEWAY PRIOR TO NETWORK CONNECTION CERLANEK, RACHEL ELIZABETH 55d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18478488 OPERATING SYSTEMS AND RAIL ASSEMBLIES FOR COVERINGS FOR ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES AND RELATED COVERINGS HANES JR., JOHN 24d overdue
18552130 LAMINATE FIGG, LAURA B 17d overdue
18031757 CELLULAR SLATS FOR A COVERING FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE RAMSEY, JEREMY C 15d
18755873 PROTECTIVE CASE FOR A TRANSMISSION AND MOTOR(S) FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL-STRUCTURE COVERING TRAN, PHI DIEU 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3634 2
3633 1
2412 1
1781 1
2496 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18755873 PROTECTIVE CASE FOR A TRANSMISSION AND MOTOR(S) FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL-STRUCTURE COVERING TRAN, PHI DIEU 3633 Other Non-Final OA 33d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18692568 CONFIGURING AN ARCHITECTURAL COVERING GATEWAY PRIOR TO NETWORK CONNECTION CERLANEK, RACHEL ELIZABETH 2412 §103 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Mar 15, 2024
18478488 OPERATING SYSTEMS AND RAIL ASSEMBLIES FOR COVERINGS FOR ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES AND RELATED COVERINGS HANES JR., JOHN 3634 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Sep 29, 2023
18552130 LAMINATE FIGG, LAURA B 1781 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Sep 22, 2023
18031757 CELLULAR SLATS FOR A COVERING FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE RAMSEY, JEREMY C 3634 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18245865 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTING A RESET MODE FOR ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE COVERINGS POWERS, WILLIAM S 2496 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Mar 17, 2023

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