Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sig Sauer Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio involves 6 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units, indicating examiner dispersion within a narrower technical-unit footprint.
HAYES, BRET C is the busiest identified examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can organize the portfolio by art unit while preserving matter-specific examiner analysis, especially for the applications assigned to this examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAYES, BRET C | 2 | 80.3% | +15.3% |
| TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 1 | 77.8% | +11.4% |
| DAVID, MICHAEL D | 1 | 82.4% | +13.6% |
| KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 1 | 66.1% | +24.4% |
| ELDRED, JOHN W | 1 | 77.7% | +8.2% |
| OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 1 | 75.0% | +15.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19189461 | SAFETY MECHANISM FOR BLOWBACK FIREARM | HAYES, BRET C | 28d |
| 19386795 | MULTI-PROJECTILE AMMUNITION AND METHOD OF MAKING | HAYES, BRET C | — |
| 18808627 | MAGAZINE DISCONNECT MECHANISM | ELDRED, JOHN W | — |
| 18662813 | ESTABLISHING PAIRING BETWEEN ELECTRICAL DEVICES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19078647 | DIGITAL RETICLE SYSTEM | DAVID, MICHAEL D | 23d overdue |
| 19189461 | SAFETY MECHANISM FOR BLOWBACK FIREARM | HAYES, BRET C | 28d |
| 19386795 | MULTI-PROJECTILE AMMUNITION AND METHOD OF MAKING | HAYES, BRET C | — |
| 19093965 | HANDGUN AND MAGAZINE THEREFOR | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | — |
| 18962864 | REFLEX TARGET SIGHT MOUNT | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | — |
| 18662813 | ESTABLISHING PAIRING BETWEEN ELECTRICAL DEVICES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 6 |
| 2472 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19386795 | MULTI-PROJECTILE AMMUNITION AND METHOD OF MAKING | HAYES, BRET C | 3641 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 19189461 | SAFETY MECHANISM FOR BLOWBACK FIREARM | HAYES, BRET C | 3641 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 19093965 | HANDGUN AND MAGAZINE THEREFOR | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 3641 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19078647 | DIGITAL RETICLE SYSTEM | DAVID, MICHAEL D | 3641 | Other | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18962864 | REFLEX TARGET SIGHT MOUNT | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 3641 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18808627 | MAGAZINE DISCONNECT MECHANISM | ELDRED, JOHN W | 3641 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18662813 | ESTABLISHING PAIRING BETWEEN ELECTRICAL DEVICES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 2472 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSig Sauer Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Bret C Hayes has the most, with 2 of Sig Sauer Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
