Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Schneider Electric Industries SAS

14 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

14
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (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%)
12
Medium (86%)
2
Easy (14%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (71%)
§102 only2 (14%)
§112 only2 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
9
Information Tech
64% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
29% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
7% 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.

140 h
Manual time on pending OAs
28 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
49 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 1 80.2% +12.6%
ASHLEY, HUGH MARK 1 92.3% +11.5%
BOLTON, WILLIAM A 1 89.1% +5.7%
HOMZA, LISA NHUNG 1 86.7% +1.3%
CLEARY, THOMAS J 1 72.8% +15.8%
LIPMAN, JACOB 1 83.4% +13.6%
CAVALLARI, DANIEL 1 78.2% +14.1%
MOURAD, RASEM 1 74.0% +26.1%
LIN, CHENG XI 1 84.5% +14.4%
OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 1 63.2% +37.1%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18533434 BIOMETRIC ACCESS TO PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION CONTROLLER LIPMAN, JACOB 59d overdue
18214578 TRANSPORT SYSTEM LIN, CHENG XI 10d overdue
18442388 EXHAUST GRID FOR AN ARC EXTINGUISHING DEVICE BOLTON, WILLIAM A 6d
18753315 FLEXIBLE DATA PIPELINE FOR DATA STORAGE HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 27d
18626421 ABSOLUTE TIME IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM ASHLEY, HUGH MARK 70d
18575576 MOVABLE CONTACT DRIVING DEVICE AND SWITCHING APPARATUS HOMZA, LISA NHUNG 83d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18538113 NETWORKING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ELECTRICAL POWER OVER WIRED DATA TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS CLEARY, THOMAS J 89d overdue
18533434 BIOMETRIC ACCESS TO PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION CONTROLLER LIPMAN, JACOB 59d overdue
18211659 METHOD FOR OPERATING A TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 11d overdue
18214578 TRANSPORT SYSTEM LIN, CHENG XI 10d overdue
18565239 An Extendable System Architecture of Instant Transfer Switch CAVALLARI, DANIEL 5d overdue
18753315 FLEXIBLE DATA PIPELINE FOR DATA STORAGE HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 27d
18564520 SOLID-STATE AUTOMATIC TRANSFER SWITCH AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF MOURAD, RASEM 41d
18626421 ABSOLUTE TIME IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM ASHLEY, HUGH MARK 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2836 2
2166 1
2463 1
2831 1
2837 1
2175 1
2434 1
3615 1
2118 1
2165 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18753315 FLEXIBLE DATA PIPELINE FOR DATA STORAGE HALM, KWEKU WILLIAM 2166 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18626421 ABSOLUTE TIME IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM ASHLEY, HUGH MARK 2463 §102 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Apr 04, 2024
18442388 EXHAUST GRID FOR AN ARC EXTINGUISHING DEVICE BOLTON, WILLIAM A 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Feb 15, 2024
18575576 MOVABLE CONTACT DRIVING DEVICE AND SWITCHING APPARATUS HOMZA, LISA NHUNG 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Dec 29, 2023
18538113 NETWORKING APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ELECTRICAL POWER OVER WIRED DATA TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS CLEARY, THOMAS J 2175 §102 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2023
18533434 BIOMETRIC ACCESS TO PROGRAMMABLE AUTOMATION CONTROLLER LIPMAN, JACOB 2434 §103 Final Rejection 59d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2023
18565239 An Extendable System Architecture of Instant Transfer Switch CAVALLARI, DANIEL 2836 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Nov 29, 2023
18564520 SOLID-STATE AUTOMATIC TRANSFER SWITCH AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF MOURAD, RASEM 2836 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Nov 27, 2023
18214578 TRANSPORT SYSTEM LIN, CHENG XI 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18211659 METHOD FOR OPERATING A TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSPORT SYSTEM OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 2118 §112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18180984 METHOD FOR GENERATING ITEMS OF CONTEXT-DEPENDENT INFORMATION NGUYEN, LOAN T 2165 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18104824 SECURED CONTAINER DEPLOYMENT PAULINO, LENIN 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 02, 2023
17900903 SYNCHRONIZATION FOR BACKPLANE COMMUNICATION GUADALUPE CRUZ, AIXA AMYR 2466 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 01, 2022
17511712 IOT GATEWAY FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS, ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS RAZA, MUHAMMAD A 2449 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2021

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