Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stewart & Stevenson LLC maintains 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. This distribution suggests a lack of examiner concentration, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, showing some concentration of technical subject matter despite the involvement of multiple examiners. FOLLMAN, BRODIE J is the busiest examiner currently associated with the company, holding 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners manages only 1 action, the workload is perfectly balanced across the identified personnel.
For practitioners, the presence of 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units implies that while the technology is focused, the examiner perspectives will be diverse. The 1 pending action assigned to FOLLMAN, BRODIE J represents the maximum workload for any single examiner in this set. This structure requires monitoring individual examiner tendencies across the examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOLLMAN, BRODIE J | 1 | 73.9% | +10.6% |
| WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 1 | 84.0% | +11.5% |
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.7% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18883485 | PLATFORM LIFT FOR RAILROAD CAR MOVING VEHICLE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949566 | HYBRID TRACTOR/TRAILER SYSTEM | FOLLMAN, BRODIE J | — |
| 18940282 | NEGOTIATING MULTI-CONTROLLER LOGIC FOR FAN IN MOBILE FRACTURING UNIT | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18949566 | HYBRID TRACTOR/TRAILER SYSTEM | FOLLMAN, BRODIE J | — |
| 18940282 | NEGOTIATING MULTI-CONTROLLER LOGIC FOR FAN IN MOBILE FRACTURING UNIT | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | — |
| 18883485 | PLATFORM LIFT FOR RAILROAD CAR MOVING VEHICLE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18949566 | HYBRID TRACTOR/TRAILER SYSTEM | FOLLMAN, BRODIE J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18940282 | NEGOTIATING MULTI-CONTROLLER LOGIC FOR FAN IN MOBILE FRACTURING UNIT | WLODARSKI, NICHOLAS NMN | 3763 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18883485 | PLATFORM LIFT FOR RAILROAD CAR MOVING VEHICLE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — | §103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
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