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
Ips Corporation - Weld-On Division currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The portfolio is situated in 1 distinct art unit. HEWITT, JAMES M is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a very limited current prosecution footprint. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the technical and procedural focus is highly concentrated.
HEWITT, JAMES M manages the entire pending workload for the entity. This single point of contact defines the current interaction between the company and the USPTO. Practitioners can observe that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area is the sole focus of this pending matter. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company is not currently facing the challenges of multi-unit prosecution. HEWITT, JAMES M is the only examiner listed, handling the 1 busiest examiner pending action. The current data shows a streamlined prosecution profile with no examiner or art unit diversity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEWITT, JAMES M | 1 | 69.7% | +45.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19160783 | PIPE FITTINGS AND CONNECTOR KITS | HEWITT, JAMES M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19160783 | PIPE FITTINGS AND CONNECTOR KITS | HEWITT, JAMES M | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialIps Corporation - Weld-On Division has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James M Hewitt has the most, with 1 of Ips Corporation - Weld-On Division's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
