Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wabtec Hauts-De-France has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The portfolio's prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct art units. Stephen M Bowes is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action.
This indicates that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner. With 2 distinct art units involved, practitioners must navigate different technical groupings within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. The management of these pending office actions across the distinct examiners requires a coordinated effort to ensure that technical arguments remain consistent across the 2 distinct art units. The company's current prosecution path is defined by these interactions across multiple examiners.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOWES, STEPHEN M | 1 | 66.3% | +25.9% |
| MORRIS, DAVID R. | 1 | 81.9% | +14.3% |
| LEE, AHAM NMN | 1 | 46.3% | +54.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832475 | RAILWAY BRAKING SYSTEM FOR A RAILWAY VEHICLE HAVING BRAKES WITH AT LEAST ONE SHOE, AND RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM | BOWES, STEPHEN M | — |
| 18723621 | RAILWAY BRAKING SYSTEM AND RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM | MORRIS, DAVID R. | — |
| 17742134 | VEHICLE SURFACE DISINFECTANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, AHAM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18832475 | RAILWAY BRAKING SYSTEM FOR A RAILWAY VEHICLE HAVING BRAKES WITH AT LEAST ONE SHOE, AND RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM | BOWES, STEPHEN M | — |
| 18723621 | RAILWAY BRAKING SYSTEM AND RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM | MORRIS, DAVID R. | — |
| 17742134 | VEHICLE SURFACE DISINFECTANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, AHAM NMN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 2 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18832475 | RAILWAY BRAKING SYSTEM FOR A RAILWAY VEHICLE HAVING BRAKES WITH AT LEAST ONE SHOE, AND RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM | BOWES, STEPHEN M | 3616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18723621 | RAILWAY BRAKING SYSTEM AND RAILWAY VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 17742134 | VEHICLE SURFACE DISINFECTANT SYSTEM AND METHOD | LEE, AHAM NMN | 1758 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
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