Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Julius Blum GmbH

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 32 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)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%)
10
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only9 (90%)
§102 only1 (10%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
20% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
O BRIEN, JEFFREY D 2 50.4% +65.9%
SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2 69.3% +25.9%
REPHANN, JUSTIN B 1 78.1% +24.5%
ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK 1 63.5% +24.5%
FULTON, KRISTINA ROSE 1 52.8% +34.9%
DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 1 72.3% +19.9%
ALONZO MILLER, RHADAMES J 1 67.6% +3.9%
SHECHTMAN, SEAN P 1 75.3% +22.3%

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18732026 FITTING FOR MOVABLY MOUNTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT O BRIEN, JEFFREY D 119d overdue
18749021 DOUBLE-WALLED DRAWER FRAME ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK 117d overdue
18073182 TWO-CHANNEL RECEIVING SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 38d overdue
18070992 METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ASSEMBLY SHECHTMAN, SEAN P 36d overdue
18132528 FURNITURE FITTING O BRIEN, JEFFREY D 30d overdue
18072102 METHOD FOR SETTING UP AT LEAST ONE FURNITURE DRIVE SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 30d overdue
18929127 ASSEMBLY FOR GUIDING AT LEAST ONE MOVABLE FURNITURE PART RELATIVE TO A FURNITURE BODY REPHANN, JUSTIN B 18d overdue
18417435 DRAWER PULL-OUT GUIDE DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 4d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3677 2
2117 2
3634 1
3637 1
3675 1
3632 1
2847 1
2896 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18929127 ASSEMBLY FOR GUIDING AT LEAST ONE MOVABLE FURNITURE PART RELATIVE TO A FURNITURE BODY REPHANN, JUSTIN B 3634 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Oct 28, 2024
18749021 DOUBLE-WALLED DRAWER FRAME ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK 3637 §103 Final Rejection 117d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18732026 FITTING FOR MOVABLY MOUNTING A PIVOTING ELEMENT O BRIEN, JEFFREY D 3677 §103 Non-Final OA 119d overdue Pending Jun 03, 2024
18636996 ARRANGEMENT FOR GUIDING AT LEAST TWO FURNITURE DOORS FULTON, KRISTINA ROSE 3675 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18417435 DRAWER PULL-OUT GUIDE DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY 3632 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jan 19, 2024
18384637 POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE ALONZO MILLER, RHADAMES J 2847 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18132528 FURNITURE FITTING O BRIEN, JEFFREY D 3677 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Apr 10, 2023
18073182 TWO-CHANNEL RECEIVING SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Final Rejection 38d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022
18072102 METHOD FOR SETTING UP AT LEAST ONE FURNITURE DRIVE SAAVEDRA, EMILIO J 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 30, 2022
18070992 METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ASSEMBLY SHECHTMAN, SEAN P 2896 §102 Non-Final OA 36d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2022

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