Technology areas: 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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Esab AB has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners in 3 distinct art units, creating separate examination paths.
BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use consistent mechanical and transportation terminology across the portfolio while addressing each examiner’s individual objections.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 1 | 56.5% | -0.4% |
| ING, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.7% | +8.4% |
| TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 1 | 42.9% | +50.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18804308 | PALLET | ING, MATTHEW W | 41d |
| 18934276 | ENDLESS WIRE TAB FOR WELDING WIRE CONTAINERS | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | — |
| 17537644 | ADAPTIVE INDUCTANCE COMPENSATION IN A WELDING CIRCUIT | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17537644 | ADAPTIVE INDUCTANCE COMPENSATION IN A WELDING CIRCUIT | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934276 | ENDLESS WIRE TAB FOR WELDING WIRE CONTAINERS | BURRELL, KATELYNNE RUTH | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18804308 | PALLET | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 17537644 | ADAPTIVE INDUCTANCE COMPENSATION IN A WELDING CIRCUIT | TRAN-LE, THAO UYEN | 3761 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialEsab AB has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Katelynne Ruth Burrell has the most, with 1 of Esab AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
