Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Schneider Electric

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

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%)
2
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (33%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (67%)
§112 only1 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
67% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
33% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO 1 77.8% +13.6%
ANDERSON II, STEVEN S 1 65.9% +35.2%
HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH 1 72.2% +23.6%

Interview Candidates (3)

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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18541104 MECHANICAL BREAKPOINT MODULE AND SOLID-STATE CIRCUIT BREAKER CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO 146d overdue
18528343 HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL CABINET AND ELECTRICAL CABINET ANDERSON II, STEVEN S 3d overdue
18520411 POWER DISTRIBUTION MODULE FOR SWITCHGEAR AND SWITCHGEAR HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2831 1
3762 1
2835 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18541104 MECHANICAL BREAKPOINT MODULE AND SOLID-STATE CIRCUIT BREAKER CAROC, LHEIREN MAE ANGLO 2831 §112 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18528343 HEAT DISSIPATING DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL CABINET AND ELECTRICAL CABINET ANDERSON II, STEVEN S 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Dec 04, 2023
18520411 POWER DISTRIBUTION MODULE FOR SWITCHGEAR AND SWITCHGEAR HOFFBERG, ROBERT JOSEPH 2835 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Nov 27, 2023

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