Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. All 3 actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of departmental consistency for the company's current applications. These cases are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different person.
CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since each of the 3 distinct examiners holds exactly 1 action, the workload is evenly split across the USPTO staff. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single official is handling multiple matters for the company. The single art unit involved simplifies the procedural landscape for these 3 pending office actions, even with several different examiners to consider. Practitioners must manage multiple examiner relationships while adhering to the specific practices of the 1 distinct art unit that governs the workload.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | 1 | 69.7% | +18.6% |
| BERGIN, JAMES S | 1 | 79.4% | +9.9% |
| LEE, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 80.1% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19173356 | PROJECTILE AND WEAPON SYSTEM | LEE, BENJAMIN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19215823 | PROPELLANT CHARGE, PROPELLANT CHARGE ASSEMBLY, AND CARTRIDGE AMMUNITION | BERGIN, JAMES S | 30d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19222982 | IGNITION SYSTEM, PROPELLANT CHARGE AND PIECE OF AMMUNITION | CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | — |
| 19173356 | PROJECTILE AND WEAPON SYSTEM | LEE, BENJAMIN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19222982 | IGNITION SYSTEM, PROPELLANT CHARGE AND PIECE OF AMMUNITION | CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | 3641 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19215823 | PROPELLANT CHARGE, PROPELLANT CHARGE ASSEMBLY, AND CARTRIDGE AMMUNITION | BERGIN, JAMES S | 3641 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19173356 | PROJECTILE AND WEAPON SYSTEM | LEE, BENJAMIN P | 3641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Michelle Renee Clement has the most, with 1 of Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
