Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Stanley Black & Decker Inc.

5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

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
40% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GUADALUPE, YARITZA 2 82.5% +14.6%
LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 1 68.9% +36.2%
POON, DANA LEE 1 53.6% +44.1%
MARTIN, KEEGAN THOMAS 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18537430 HAND TOOL SYSTEM GUADALUPE, YARITZA 8d overdue
18076464 LASER LEVEL WITH IMPROVED VISABILITY GUADALUPE, YARITZA 8d overdue
18443978 HAND TOOL WITH RADIALLY FLEXIBLE DRIVE GEAR MARTIN, KEEGAN THOMAS 16d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18655234 Clamp with Movement Management POON, DANA LEE 46d overdue
19015079 POWER TOOL LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 8d overdue
18537430 HAND TOOL SYSTEM GUADALUPE, YARITZA 8d overdue
18076464 LASER LEVEL WITH IMPROVED VISABILITY GUADALUPE, YARITZA 8d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3723 2
2855 2
3731 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19015079 POWER TOOL LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY 3731 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jan 09, 2025
18655234 Clamp with Movement Management POON, DANA LEE 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending May 04, 2024
18443978 HAND TOOL WITH RADIALLY FLEXIBLE DRIVE GEAR MARTIN, KEEGAN THOMAS 3723 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Feb 16, 2024
18537430 HAND TOOL SYSTEM GUADALUPE, YARITZA 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 12, 2023
18076464 LASER LEVEL WITH IMPROVED VISABILITY GUADALUPE, YARITZA 2855 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Dec 07, 2022

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