Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Hillman Group Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each pending matter is being evaluated independently by different personnel in separate administrative groups. This lack of overlap suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation innovations are technically diverse.
LEWIS, JUSTIN V is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. Given the total of 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split, with no examiner handling more than one case. The presence of 3 distinct art units implies that the company's innovations are categorized into several different specialized groups at the patent office. Prosecution teams must therefore prepare for three different sets of examiner preferences and unit specific precedents. This distributed approach requires a legal strategy that can adapt to the unique requirements of each 1 distinct art unit and examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 1 | 55.4% | +17.6% |
| HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 1 | — | — |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739904 | HOUSE NUMBER MOUNTING SYSTEM | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739904 | HOUSE NUMBER MOUNTING SYSTEM | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739904 | HOUSE NUMBER MOUNTING SYSTEM | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 3637 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18468838 | ENGRAVING MACHINE FOR ENGRAVING METALLIC AND NON-METALLIC ITEMS | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18157383 | TAG HOLDING CASSETTE ASSEMBLY FOR USE IN ENGRAVING MACHINES | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Hillman Group Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Justin V Lewis has the most, with 1 of The Hillman Group Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
