Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wabash National L.P. is currently navigating 3 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed among distinct examiners working in 3 distinct art units. VO, HAI is the busiest examiner in this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The distribution of actions across separate art units indicates a diverse range of technical subject matter being prosecuted simultaneously.
The portfolio's 3 pending office actions are spread across distinct art units, which suggests that the company's innovations in Chemistry & Materials touch on several different specialized fields. Because distinct examiners are involved, each action is being reviewed by a different individual. VO, HAI, despite being the busiest examiner, is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates a very balanced workload distribution across the current prosecution team at the USPTO. Practitioners should note that no single examiner or art unit dominates the current activity, requiring a broad approach to managing these matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.1% | +3.5% |
| VO, HAI | 1 | 57.1% | +72.4% |
| MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1 | 71.2% | +26.3% |
| MORROW, JASON S | 1 | 84.3% | +10.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509444 | CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURING OF A COMPOSITE STRUCTURE | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 42d |
| 18942890 | COMPOSITE TRUCK BODY KITS | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
| 18506333 | FLOOR ASSEMBLY FOR A CARGO VEHICLE | MORROW, JASON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18509444 | CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURING OF A COMPOSITE STRUCTURE | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 42d |
| 18666373 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH EMBEDDED SENSORS | VO, HAI | — |
| 18506333 | FLOOR ASSEMBLY FOR A CARGO VEHICLE | MORROW, JASON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 1746 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18942890 | COMPOSITE TRUCK BODY KITS | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18666373 | COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH EMBEDDED SENSORS | VO, HAI | 1788 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18509444 | CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURING OF A COMPOSITE STRUCTURE | MUSSER, BARBARA J | 1746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
| 18506333 | FLOOR ASSEMBLY FOR A CARGO VEHICLE | MORROW, JASON S | 3612 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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