Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
SIMPSON STRONG-TIE Company Inc. is navigating 9 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 7 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This indicates that some examiners are handling multiple matters within the company's mechanical systems portfolio. The 5 distinct art units show that the company's technology is being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office.
SAETHER, FLEMMING is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 2 pending office actions. This distribution indicates that while SAETHER, FLEMMING has a workload of 2 actions, the remaining actions are spread across the other 7 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that while multiple examiners are involved, the concentration of actions under SAETHER, FLEMMING and the spread across specialized units requires a multi-faceted prosecution strategy. Successfully managing the 9 pending office actions involves addressing the specific tendencies of the various reviewers involved.
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 | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (78%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 2 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
| ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 2 | 55.4% | +44.6% |
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 65.1% | +27.9% |
| BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 1 | 65.5% | +14.9% |
| HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1 | 51.4% | +28.9% |
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 1 | 77.5% | +14.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542131 | ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 84d overdue |
| 18453840 | SYSTEM FOR CENTERING RODS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 4d overdue |
| 17700388 | THRUST NUT | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 42d |
| 18979582 | Adjustable Post Cap | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | — |
| 18629299 | BOX BEAM ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — |
| 18211209 | Anchor Bolt Locator | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| 17711466 | SYSTEM FOR FILLING VOIDS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18542131 | ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 84d overdue |
| 18453840 | SYSTEM FOR CENTERING RODS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 4d overdue |
| 17700388 | THRUST NUT | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 42d |
| 18979582 | Adjustable Post Cap | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | — |
| 18629299 | BOX BEAM ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — |
| 18211209 | Anchor Bolt Locator | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| 18206566 | High Capacity Beam Hanger | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | — |
| 17827928 | Tension Tie | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 5 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18979582 | Adjustable Post Cap | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18629299 | BOX BEAM ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18542131 | ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 84d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18453840 | SYSTEM FOR CENTERING RODS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 18211209 | Anchor Bolt Locator | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 3633 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18206566 | High Capacity Beam Hanger | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 3635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 17827928 | Tension Tie | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 3635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2022 |
| 17711466 | SYSTEM FOR FILLING VOIDS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES | HANDVILLE, BRIAN | 1783 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2022 |
| 17700388 | THRUST NUT | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 3993 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Mar 21, 2022 |
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