Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stanley Black & Decker Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters are distributed among 11 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units, indicating both examiner reuse and greater concentration at the art-unit level.
PAYER, HWEI-SIU C is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner relationship should receive coordinated attention, while the art-unit distribution provides an additional structure for aligning responses and identifying recurring examination issues.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 4 (31%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (46%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 2 | 74.0% | +29.7% |
| SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 2 | 77.4% | +14.2% |
| LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 1 | 81.8% | +11.7% |
| HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 1 | 87.0% | +12.1% |
| DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | 1 | 41.8% | +39.9% |
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
| GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 1 | 82.3% | +14.9% |
| POON, DANA LEE | 1 | 55.4% | +41.8% |
| COURSON, TANIA C | 1 | 65.0% | +27.8% |
| DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 1 | 37.7% | +30.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19269094 | RATCHETING TOOL WITH CLUTCH | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| 18734036 | LASER LEVEL ASSEMBLY | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING A METAL OBJECT | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | — |
| 19050994 | FOLDING KNIFE WITH SELECTIVELY HIDDEN BLADE RELEASE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| 18979389 | LASER LEVEL COOLING | DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | — |
| 18862829 | Tape Measure Housing with Extended Mouth and Finger Brake Opening | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| 18919848 | HINGED BLADE DISPENSER | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| 18673463 | LASER LEVEL ASSEMBLY | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| 17560661 | Metal Snips | PRONE, JASON D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655234 | Clamp with Movement Management | POON, DANA LEE | 46d overdue |
| 19269094 | RATCHETING TOOL WITH CLUTCH | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| 19065846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING A METAL OBJECT | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | — |
| 19050994 | FOLDING KNIFE WITH SELECTIVELY HIDDEN BLADE RELEASE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| 18979389 | LASER LEVEL COOLING | DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | — |
| 18958370 | MULTI LOCK MEMBER KNIFE BLADE RELEASE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | — |
| 18862829 | Tape Measure Housing with Extended Mouth and Finger Brake Opening | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | — |
| 18919848 | HINGED BLADE DISPENSER | KUMAR, RAKESH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 4 |
| 2855 | 4 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19269094 | RATCHETING TOOL WITH CLUTCH | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 19065846 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING A METAL OBJECT | HAWKINS, DOMINIC E | 2858 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19050994 | FOLDING KNIFE WITH SELECTIVELY HIDDEN BLADE RELEASE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18979389 | LASER LEVEL COOLING | DECKER, JAMIL ALEXANDER | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18958370 | MULTI LOCK MEMBER KNIFE BLADE RELEASE | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18862829 | Tape Measure Housing with Extended Mouth and Finger Brake Opening | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 2855 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18919848 | HINGED BLADE DISPENSER | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18734036 | LASER LEVEL ASSEMBLY | GUADALUPE, YARITZA | 2855 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18673463 | LASER LEVEL ASSEMBLY | SAUNDERS, ANNA JOSEPHINE | 2855 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18655234 | Clamp with Movement Management | POON, DANA LEE | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2024 |
| 18383085 | LASER LEVEL SYSTEM | COURSON, TANIA C | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18064400 | UTILITY KNIFE BLADE SLIDER WITH AUTO-LOCK ON BLADE INSERTION | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17560661 | Metal Snips | PRONE, JASON D | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialStanley Black & Decker Inc. has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 11 examiners.
Hwei-Siu C Payer has the most, with 2 of Stanley Black & Decker Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
