Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wagner Spray Tech Corporation has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused technical scope with examination duties shared between different personnel.
WALTHOUR, SCOTT J is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is divided equally across the portfolio's active matters. This arrangement prevents any single examiner from dominating the company's current prosecution outcomes.
The 1 distinct art unit involved ensures that the technical arguments remain within a specific classification. Because there are multiple examiners, practitioners should monitor for any differences in how each individual interprets the prior art. Maintaining consistency across these 2 pending office actions is essential for the company's overall patent strategy.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 1 | 78.4% | +70.0% |
| FORD, RENE D | 1 | 80.1% | +22.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440268 | FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | FORD, RENE D | 63d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651800 | AIRLESS FLUID SPRAYING SYSTEM WITH FLUID FILTER DIAGNOSTICS | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 8d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18651800 | AIRLESS FLUID SPRAYING SYSTEM WITH FLUID FILTER DIAGNOSTICS | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 8d |
| 18440268 | FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | FORD, RENE D | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18651800 | AIRLESS FLUID SPRAYING SYSTEM WITH FLUID FILTER DIAGNOSTICS | WALTHOUR, SCOTT J | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18440268 | FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | FORD, RENE D | 3741 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
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