Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hoffman Enclosures Inc. maintains a patent portfolio with 3 pending office actions. These actions are situated within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The prosecution is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution shows that the number of examiners matches the total count of pending actions.
The portfolio is also spread across a matching number of distinct art units. This variety indicates that the company's filings in Chemistry & Materials are touching upon diverse technical classifications within the USPTO. The pending office actions are not clustered in a single administrative group, which may require navigating different internal policies or examination styles across the various art units.
WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is the figure of 3 mentioned earlier, this busiest examiner handles a portion of the current volume. This distribution across the distinct examiners and art units provides a balanced but fragmented prosecution landscape for the company. Practitioners should prepare for 1 busiest examiner pending action while coordinating across the other active matters.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1 | 63.6% | +25.6% |
| BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 1 | 78.2% | +17.2% |
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17984072 | Coolant Distribution Unit and Control System | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828349 | CONDUCTIVE MOLDED ENCLOSURE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 15d |
| 18797240 | Weatherproof Enclosure Assembly | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | — |
| 17984072 | Coolant Distribution Unit and Control System | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1712 | 1 |
| 2847 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18828349 | CONDUCTIVE MOLDED ENCLOSURE | WEDDLE, ALEXANDER MARION | 1712 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18797240 | Weatherproof Enclosure Assembly | BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS | 2847 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 17984072 | Coolant Distribution Unit and Control System | ARANT, HARRY E | 3700 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 09, 2022 |
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