Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edsal Manufacturing Company LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, HAWN, PATRICK D, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The matter is being prosecuted in 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular administrative focus for the company's current patent interests.
The concentration of the workload under HAWN, PATRICK D means the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the specific review preferences of this individual. Since the portfolio involves only 1 distinct art unit, there are no competing unit-level policies to navigate. This singular administrative path allows for a direct communication strategy between the applicant and the examiner to resolve the 1 pending office action.
Practitioners should analyze the historical patterns of the involved art unit to anticipate procedural expectations. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the strategy does not need to account for diverse examiner backgrounds or conflicting art unit cultures. The focus remains entirely on the specific tendencies of HAWN, PATRICK D and the 1 distinct art unit assigned to this 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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWN, PATRICK D | 1 | 65.9% | +38.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19192423 | WELDLESS SHELF SUPPORT BEAMS AND SHELVING UNITS UTILIZING SAME | HAWN, PATRICK D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19192423 | WELDLESS SHELF SUPPORT BEAMS AND SHELVING UNITS UTILIZING SAME | HAWN, PATRICK D | 3631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialEdsal Manufacturing Company LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Patrick D Hawn has the most, with 1 of Edsal Manufacturing Company LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
