Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wafios Aktiengesellschaft maintains 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution among the 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners indicates that every pending matter is being prosecuted in a unique technical and personnel environment.
The busiest examiner, ROBINSON, MICHAEL, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, no single examiner has a larger share of the workload than any other. The use of 4 distinct art units for these actions highlights a broad technical spread within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector for the company's current applications.
This prosecution profile shows a high degree of diversification, as each of the pending office actions is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate distinct sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards. The lack of overlap between the 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units suggests that strategies successful in one application may not directly translate to the others.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1 | 62.0% | +20.6% |
| YOO, JUN S | 1 | 78.6% | +20.3% |
| CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 1 | 63.0% | +24.8% |
| GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 1 | 67.0% | +36.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030293 | BENDING MACHINE, AND WIRE-PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING A BENDING MACHINE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 26d |
| 18435412 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | YOO, JUN S | — |
| 18264905 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030293 | BENDING MACHINE, AND WIRE-PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING A BENDING MACHINE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 26d |
| 18889693 | MANDREL FOR THERMOPLASTIC TUBE MATERIAL, BENDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR BENDING SUCH TUBE MATERIAL | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | — |
| 18435412 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | YOO, JUN S | — |
| 18264905 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1744 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18889693 | MANDREL FOR THERMOPLASTIC TUBE MATERIAL, BENDING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR BENDING SUCH TUBE MATERIAL | ROBINSON, MICHAEL | 1744 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
| 18435412 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | YOO, JUN S | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18264905 | METHOD AND WIRE PROCESSING MACHINE THAT PRODUCES SHAPED PARTS FROM INSULATED FLAT MATERIAL | CAZAN, LIVIUS RADU | 3729 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2023 |
| 18030293 | BENDING MACHINE, AND WIRE-PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING A BENDING MACHINE | GUTHRIE, TERESA A | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
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