Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Stanley Works Israel Ltd. has 7 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with some concentration at the art-unit level.
THOMPSON, KENNETH L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Since the supplied data assigns each examiner 1 pending matter, prosecution planning should emphasize individualized review and consistent internal support across the six art units.
A shared technical vocabulary can reduce avoidable inconsistency, while separate claim and prior-art analyses remain necessary for each transportation and mechanical matter.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 1 | 87.4% | +6.8% |
| BENNETT, GEORGE B | 1 | 79.6% | +10.8% |
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.9% | +14.9% |
| DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 1 | 37.7% | +30.1% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 52.0% | +15.5% |
| CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 1 | 69.7% | +20.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933071 | DUAL CONNECTOR | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640948 | SUPPORT FOR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BENNETT, GEORGE B | — |
| 18410020 | STACKABLE STORAGE DRAWER | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18640948 | SUPPORT FOR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BENNETT, GEORGE B | — |
| 18636613 | STACKING LATCH MECHANISM | PAL, PRINCE | — |
| 18431556 | AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT UNIT | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | — |
| 18410020 | STACKABLE STORAGE DRAWER | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | — |
| 18543450 | STACKABLE FAN | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933071 | DUAL CONNECTOR | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3676 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18640948 | SUPPORT FOR DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE | BENNETT, GEORGE B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18636613 | STACKING LATCH MECHANISM | PAL, PRINCE | 3736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18431556 | AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENT UNIT | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18410020 | STACKABLE STORAGE DRAWER | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18543450 | STACKABLE FAN | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 3613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialThe Stanley Works Israel Ltd. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Kenneth L Thompson has the most, with 1 of The Stanley Works Israel Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
