Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
22 pending office actions • 4 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Julius Blum GmbH has 24 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 12 distinct examiners across 4 distinct art units, showing substantial concentration in the art-unit structure and repeated assignments to examiners.
ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK is the busiest examiner, with 5 pending matters. This is a meaningful focal point for coordinated prosecution review, including consistency in claim amendments and arguments. The limited art-unit spread also supports organizing the portfolio by technical examination group.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 8 (36%) |
| §112 only | 2 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 5 | 63.5% | +24.2% |
| TRAN, HANH VAN | 4 | 74.1% | +13.8% |
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3 | 70.5% | +21.8% |
| O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | 2 | 50.5% | +66.2% |
| ING, MATTHEW W | 2 | 64.7% | +8.4% |
| WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 1 | 72.6% | +12.6% |
| ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 1 | 43.2% | -20.5% |
| ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 1 | 77.7% | +15.2% |
| MILLER, WILLIAM L | 1 | 79.0% | +14.9% |
| SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 1 | 69.2% | +26.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269481 | FITTING FOR MOVABLY SUPPORTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | — |
| 19223964 | PULL-OUT GUIDE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 19217442 | GUIDE SYSTEM FOR GUIDING AT LEAST ONE MOVABLY MOUNTED DOOR LEAF | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
| 19215767 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MOVING AT LEAST ONE COVERING ELEMENT | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 19071002 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE FURNITURE COMPONENT | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | — |
| 19070956 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE FURNITURE PART | ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | — |
| 19069772 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE PIECE OF FURNITURE | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | — |
| 19058310 | FURNITURE DRIVE | ING, MATTHEW W | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18749021 | DOUBLE-WALLED DRAWER FRAME | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 117d overdue |
| 18072102 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP AT LEAST ONE FURNITURE DRIVE | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 30d overdue |
| 19269481 | FITTING FOR MOVABLY SUPPORTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | — |
| 19223964 | PULL-OUT GUIDE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 19217442 | GUIDE SYSTEM FOR GUIDING AT LEAST ONE MOVABLY MOUNTED DOOR LEAF | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
| 19215767 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MOVING AT LEAST ONE COVERING ELEMENT | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 19073924 | FURNITURE DRIVE | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | — |
| 19072109 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE PIECE OF FURNITURE | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 16 |
| 3677 | 3 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19269481 | FITTING FOR MOVABLY SUPPORTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | 3677 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19223964 | PULL-OUT GUIDE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2025 |
| 19217442 | GUIDE SYSTEM FOR GUIDING AT LEAST ONE MOVABLY MOUNTED DOOR LEAF | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 3637 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19215767 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MOVING AT LEAST ONE COVERING ELEMENT | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19073924 | FURNITURE DRIVE | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19072109 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE PIECE OF FURNITURE | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19071002 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE FURNITURE COMPONENT | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19070956 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE FURNITURE PART | ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19069772 | FURNITURE DRIVE FOR DRIVING A MOVABLE PIECE OF FURNITURE | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19058310 | FURNITURE DRIVE | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19021545 | DRAWER SIDEWALL FOR A DRAWER | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19018694 | LATERAL WALL FOR A DRAWER | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19009344 | CONTAINER, PREFERABLY DRAWER | TRAN, HANH VAN | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 19008055 | LATERAL WALL FOR A DRAWER | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18939091 | SYNCHRONIZING DEVICE FOR MOVING A MOVABLE FURNITURE PART | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 3677 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18749021 | DOUBLE-WALLED DRAWER FRAME | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | 117d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18639384 | FITTING FOR MOVABLY MOUNTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT RELATIVE TO A STATIONARY SUPPORT | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | 3677 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18417373 | FURNITURE FITTING | TRAN, HANH VAN | 3637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18416102 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT ELEMENT FOR A FURNITURE FITTING | TRAN, HANH VAN | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18229244 | FURNITURE FITTING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FURNITURE FITTING | TRAN, HANH VAN | 3637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18072102 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP AT LEAST ONE FURNITURE DRIVE | SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J | 2117 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 18070992 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ASSEMBLY | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialJulius Blum GmbH has 22 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 11 examiners.
Andrew Mark Roersma has the most, with 5 of Julius Blum GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
