Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hunter Douglas Industries B V currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution is focused within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's current interactions with the patent office into 1 examination group. This concentration in 1 art unit may allow for a more consistent interpretation of the technology across the pending actions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KWIECINSKI, RYAN D, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split between the assigned reviewers. The presence of 2 distinct examiners within the transportation and mechanical systems area indicates that the company's applications are being reviewed by different individuals within the same specialized unit.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 1 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
| MASSAD, ABE L | 1 | 56.5% | +65.8% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103979 | FOLDED ARCHITECTURAL PANEL | KWIECINSKI, RYAN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19103979 | FOLDED ARCHITECTURAL PANEL | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — |
| 18841172 | RAIL FOR A COVERING | MASSAD, ABE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103979 | FOLDED ARCHITECTURAL PANEL | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 18841172 | RAIL FOR A COVERING | MASSAD, ABE L | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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