Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
VICTAULIC Company has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 5 examiners across 3 art units, indicating separate examiner relationships and limited unit overlap.
DUNWOODY, AARON M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A file-specific approach is appropriate, with consistency checks for claim language across the small transportation docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNWOODY, AARON M | 1 | 75.2% | +11.2% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 1 | 69.6% | +47.8% |
| GORMAN, DARREN W | 1 | 79.2% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759041 | FLEXIBLE DRY SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 22d |
| 19546326 | Grooved Pipe Element and Coupling | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765695 | Locking Bracket | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 15d |
| 18759041 | FLEXIBLE DRY SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 22d |
| 19546326 | Grooved Pipe Element and Coupling | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
| 19308859 | METHOD OF ROTATING A PIPELINE SECTION | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18813737 | Pipe Assembly Insulation and Vapor Barrier | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19546326 | Grooved Pipe Element and Coupling | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2026 |
| 19308859 | METHOD OF ROTATING A PIPELINE SECTION | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2025 |
| 18813737 | Pipe Assembly Insulation and Vapor Barrier | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18765695 | Locking Bracket | HOTCHKISS, MICHAEL WAYNE | 3726 | §102 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18759041 | FLEXIBLE DRY SPRINKLER | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialVICTAULIC Company has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Aaron M Dunwoody has the most, with 1 of VICTAULIC Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
