Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Janus International Group LLC has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All 3 actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners. Notably, all of these examiners are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly centralized departmental review process. BOSWELL, CHRISTOPHER J is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 of the pending office actions. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending actions, the workload is evenly split.
The fact that all 3 actions reside in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent applications are focused on a very specific technical field. This centralization within 1 distinct art unit may allow for more consistent prosecution outcomes, as the examiners likely share common departmental guidelines. Practitioners can leverage this concentration to develop a unified strategy for all 3 pending office actions. The involvement of 3 distinct examiners within a single unit provides multiple perspectives while maintaining a narrow technical focus.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678725 | ELECTRONIC DOOR LOCK | CUMAR, NATHAN | 19d overdue |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678725 | ELECTRONIC DOOR LOCK | CUMAR, NATHAN | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18678725 | ELECTRONIC DOOR LOCK | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJanus International Group LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nathan Cumar has the most, with 1 of Janus International Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
