Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Nord-Lock Switzerland GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentrated profile suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a single innovation within this technical field. Because the company is only dealing with 1 distinct art unit, the administrative requirements for their filing are likely very consistent.
Eric Scott McCall is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's success in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics sector is currently dependent on the decisions of this one official. There are no other examiners or art units in the current data to provide a comparative baseline for the company's prosecution performance. This makes the specific feedback from this examiner a critical component of the company's patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 1 | 87.8% | +6.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18250200 | A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING LOAD APPLIED TO A FASTENING MEMBER | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18250200 | A METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING LOAD APPLIED TO A FASTENING MEMBER | MCCALL, ERIC SCOTT | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNord-Lock Switzerland GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Eric Scott Mccall has the most, with 1 of Nord-Lock Switzerland GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.