Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bourgault Industries Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio that currently includes 2 pending office actions. Both of these actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This examiner operates within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high level of concentration for the company's current legal matters at the USPTO.
William Charles Doerrler is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2, Doerrler is responsible for the entire active workload. This concentration in a single art unit and under a single examiner suggests a very focused administrative path for the company's current patent applications. Managing the 2 pending office actions requires consistent engagement with this 1 distinct examiner who oversees all current filings in the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners can expect a singular point of contact within the USPTO for these specific proceedings.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 2 | 77.5% | +14.2% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197670 | NET WRAP RECOVERY DEVICE | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | — |
| 18987217 | NET WRAP RECOVERY DEVICE | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3993 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19197670 | NET WRAP RECOVERY DEVICE | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 3993 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 18987217 | NET WRAP RECOVERY DEVICE | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 3993 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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