Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.

9 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 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
1
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 60 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%)
7
Medium (78%)
2
Easy (22%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (56%)
§102 only2 (22%)
§112 only2 (22%)

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
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
89% of docket
1
Business / Other
11% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SAETHER, FLEMMING 3 64.9% +28.4%
CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 1 70.7% +14.8%
AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED 1
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 1 68.2% +19.7%
MINTZ, RODNEY K 1 78.8% +10.9%
FIGUEROA, LUZ ADRIANA 1 68.7% +21.5%
DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 1 78.2% +13.2%

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
18470775 PREASSEMBLED HOLDOWN POST MINTZ, RODNEY K 132d overdue
18542131 ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 84d overdue
18651445 Insulated Concrete Form Connector CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 77d overdue
18217508 Hoist Clip FIGUEROA, LUZ ADRIANA 70d overdue
18453577 CONCRETE FASTENER SAETHER, FLEMMING 31d overdue
18453574 CONCRETE FASTENER SAETHER, FLEMMING 31d overdue
18453840 SYSTEM FOR CENTERING RODS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES SAETHER, FLEMMING 4d overdue
17700388 THRUST NUT DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 42d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3635 3
3675 3
3633 2
3993 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18651445 Insulated Concrete Form Connector CAJILIG, CHRISTINE T 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Apr 30, 2024
18593841 Connector for Pre-Fabricated Walls AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED 3635 §103 Non-Final OA 86d overdue Pending Mar 01, 2024
18542131 ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS KWIECINSKI, RYAN D 3635 §103 Final Rejection 84d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2023
18470775 PREASSEMBLED HOLDOWN POST MINTZ, RODNEY K 3635 §102 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18453577 CONCRETE FASTENER SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 §102 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18453840 SYSTEM FOR CENTERING RODS IN GLUED-IN-ROD STRUCTURES SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18453574 CONCRETE FASTENER SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Aug 22, 2023
18217508 Hoist Clip FIGUEROA, LUZ ADRIANA 3633 §112 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
17700388 THRUST NUT DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES 3993 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Mar 21, 2022

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