Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Jeld-Wen Türen GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution effort on a specific technical application, with all activity localized to one administrative group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This figure represents the entirety of the company's active office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is confined to one specialized group. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination tendencies of MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE to effectively manage this Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filing.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution is streamlined but lacks the diversity of multiple examiner perspectives. The busiest examiner, MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE, handles the 1 pending office action, making her the sole arbiter of the company's current patent prospects. Strategy should be developed with a deep understanding of this examiner's past decisions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555592 | DOOR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN DRIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE DOOR LOCK | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18555592 | DOOR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN DRIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE DOOR LOCK | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18555592 | DOOR ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN DRIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE DOOR LOCK | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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