Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
North American Wave Engine Corporation maintains 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is currently handling a single matter for the company. The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, showing some level of technical variety within the broader sector. This distribution means that the company must manage its strategy across multiple individuals even with a relatively small number of 4 pending office actions.
IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total count of 4 pending office actions is divided among 4 distinct examiners, no single individual holds a majority of the workload. This distribution suggests that prosecution outcomes are dependent on several different examiner perspectives rather than a single primary contact. The presence of 2 distinct art units further suggests that the distinct examiners are likely operating under different supervisory styles or internal guidelines within their respective units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 1 | 57.7% | +20.8% |
| HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 1 | 81.2% | +20.5% |
| MEILLER, SEAN V | 1 | 74.1% | +38.3% |
| AMAR, MARC J | 1 | 75.2% | +37.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19001099 | HYBRID AIRCRAFT USING WAVE ENGINE AND ELECTRIC PROPULSION | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 41d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990717 | FUEL INJECTION AND MIXING APPARATUS FOR PULSE COMBUSTORS | AMAR, MARC J | 296d overdue |
| 18990902 | APPARATUS FOR FUEL-AIR MIXING AND FLAME-HOLDING IN PULSE COMBUSTORS | MEILLER, SEAN V | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18990717 | FUEL INJECTION AND MIXING APPARATUS FOR PULSE COMBUSTORS | AMAR, MARC J | 296d overdue |
| 19001099 | HYBRID AIRCRAFT USING WAVE ENGINE AND ELECTRIC PROPULSION | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 41d |
| 19292519 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR FUEL SUPPLY AND INJECTION | IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 70d |
| 18990902 | APPARATUS FOR FUEL-AIR MIXING AND FLAME-HOLDING IN PULSE COMBUSTORS | MEILLER, SEAN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 3 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19292519 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR FUEL SUPPLY AND INJECTION | IGUE, ROBERTO TOSHIHARU | 3741 | §112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Aug 06, 2025 |
| 19001099 | HYBRID AIRCRAFT USING WAVE ENGINE AND ELECTRIC PROPULSION | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18990902 | APPARATUS FOR FUEL-AIR MIXING AND FLAME-HOLDING IN PULSE COMBUSTORS | MEILLER, SEAN V | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18990717 | FUEL INJECTION AND MIXING APPARATUS FOR PULSE COMBUSTORS | AMAR, MARC J | 3741 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 296d overdue | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNorth American Wave Engine Corporation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Roberto Toshiharu Igue has the most, with 1 of North American Wave Engine Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
