Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 2 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sig Sauer Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 9 pending office actions, which are distributed among 8 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that most of the 9 pending office actions are being handled by different individuals, with only a slight overlap in examiner assignments.
The prosecution is active across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's technology in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is being reviewed by different specialized groups. DERRICK R MORGAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This makes DERRICK R MORGAN the only examiner among the 8 distinct examiners to handle multiple pending actions.
With the involvement of multiple art units, the company must navigate different sets of examination standards. The 9 pending office actions require coordination across 8 distinct examiners, which provides a broad range of perspectives on the portfolio's claims. DERRICK R MORGAN's role as the busiest examiner with the assigned workload suggests a small point of concentration within an otherwise widely distributed prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (60%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (10%) |
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 | 80.4% | +15.3% |
| MORGAN, DERRICK R | 2 | 72.7% | +27.2% |
| GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 66.7% | +28.9% |
| TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 1 | 77.8% | +11.3% |
| DAVID, MICHAEL D | 1 | 82.1% | +13.9% |
| ELDRED, JOHN W | 1 | 77.8% | +8.1% |
| KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 1 | 65.9% | +24.4% |
| OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 1 | 74.8% | +15.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960351 | MAGAZINE SPRING AND MAGAZINE ASSEMBLY | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 147d overdue |
| 19189461 | SAFETY MECHANISM FOR BLOWBACK FIREARM | HAYES, BRET C | 28d |
| 19386795 | MULTI-PROJECTILE AMMUNITION AND METHOD OF MAKING | HAYES, BRET C | — |
| 19216535 | ADJUSTABLE TARGET SIGHT | GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | — |
| 19014942 | FIREARM RECEIVER WITH INTEGRATED MOUNTING PLATE | 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960351 | MAGAZINE SPRING AND MAGAZINE ASSEMBLY | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 147d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 19225616 | QUICK DISCONNECT MOUNT FOR MUZZLE ATTACHMENTS | MORGAN, DERRICK R | — |
| 19216535 | ADJUSTABLE TARGET SIGHT | GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | — |
| 19093965 | HANDGUN AND MAGAZINE THEREFOR | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | — |
| 18962864 | REFLEX TARGET SIGHT MOUNT | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 9 |
| 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 |
| 19225616 | QUICK DISCONNECT MOUNT FOR MUZZLE ATTACHMENTS | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 3641 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 19216535 | ADJUSTABLE TARGET SIGHT | GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | 3641 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19189461 | SAFETY MECHANISM FOR BLOWBACK FIREARM | HAYES, BRET C | 3641 | §102§103§112Other | 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 |
| 19014942 | FIREARM RECEIVER WITH INTEGRATED MOUNTING PLATE | ELDRED, JOHN W | 3641 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18962864 | REFLEX TARGET SIGHT MOUNT | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 3641 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18960351 | MAGAZINE SPRING AND MAGAZINE ASSEMBLY | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 3641 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18662813 | ESTABLISHING PAIRING BETWEEN ELECTRICAL DEVICES | OLALEYE, OLADIRAN GIDEON | 2472 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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