Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
DT Swiss Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is distributed across 5 distinct examiners, indicating a fragmented prosecution landscape where each examiner handles only a single pending matter. This lack of concentration suggests that the applicant cannot rely on a single examiner's patterns to predict outcomes across the portfolio.
The portfolio spans 3 distinct art units, which requires the applicant to navigate multiple sets of internal USPTO guidelines and supervisory styles. ROGERS, ADAM D is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, yet even this individual is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution confirms that the pending office actions are entirely spread out among the 5 distinct examiners, necessitating a case-by-case strategy for each application. Managing 3 distinct art units simultaneously adds a layer of complexity to the administrative oversight of these filings.
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 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROGERS, ADAM D | 1 | 82.1% | +22.7% |
| TRIEU, VAN THANH | 1 | 84.5% | +13.8% |
| WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 54.0% | +34.8% |
| GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1 | 59.7% | +22.8% |
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.9% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18789234 | BICYCLE, AND WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18064463 | TOOL DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A RIM, AND RIM, AND USE | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 28d |
| 19059655 | WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | ROGERS, ADAM D | — |
| 18648925 | BICYCLE DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE OPERATING STATES | WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18064463 | TOOL DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A RIM, AND RIM, AND USE | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 28d |
| 19059655 | WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | ROGERS, ADAM D | — |
| 18789234 | BICYCLE, AND WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
| 18648925 | BICYCLE DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE OPERATING STATES | WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 18053714 | HUB | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19059655 | WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | ROGERS, ADAM D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18789234 | BICYCLE, AND WHEEL COMPONENT FOR A BICYCLE | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18648925 | BICYCLE DEVICE WITH ADJUSTABLE OPERATING STATES | WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18064463 | TOOL DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A RIM, AND RIM, AND USE | GRAHAM, ANDREW D | 1742 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 18053714 | HUB | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
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