Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's active matters are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical review. This distribution suggests that the company is advancing multiple distinct mechanical or medical innovations simultaneously. For the practitioner, this variety provides a broader base for prosecution, as the success of the portfolio is not tied to the decisions of a single examiner or the specific practices of one art unit.
TIGHE, DANA K is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active, while the remaining action is managed by the other of the 2 distinct examiners. This balanced workload across different examiners and art units allows the company to navigate the patent office through multiple channels. The presence of two separate points of review means that the company can apply different tactical approaches tailored to the specific requirements of each examiner, potentially increasing the overall resilience of the prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIGHE, DANA K | 1 | 75.8% | +16.8% |
| LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1 | 69.6% | +9.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579788 | VENT ASSEMBLY | TIGHE, DANA K | — |
| 18022243 | COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579788 | VENT ASSEMBLY | TIGHE, DANA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 1724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579788 | VENT ASSEMBLY | TIGHE, DANA K | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18022243 | COMPOSITE ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE | LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER | 1724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Dana K Tighe has the most, with 1 of W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
