Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wahl GmbH has 3 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The portfolio is handled by 3 distinct examiners in 1 distinct art unit. LEE, LAURA MICHELLE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter, so examiner assignments are separate within a common art-unit setting.
The common art unit supports a consistent review of mechanical and medical-device terminology, claim construction, and technical disclosure. Counsel should nevertheless prepare application-specific responses because the matters involve 3 distinct examiners. Shared analysis may help identify recurring art-unit concerns, while each amendment and argument must remain supported by the specification and responsive to its own cited record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 1 | 54.8% | +31.1% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 13.0% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283924 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A HAIR-CUTTING APPLIANCE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 93d overdue |
| 18276126 | BLADE SET FOR A HAIR CUTTING MACHINE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 44d overdue |
| 18708013 | HAIR-CUTTING DEVICE, CHARGER, AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 15d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283924 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A HAIR-CUTTING APPLIANCE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 93d overdue |
| 18276126 | BLADE SET FOR A HAIR CUTTING MACHINE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 44d overdue |
| 18708013 | HAIR-CUTTING DEVICE, CHARGER, AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18708013 | HAIR-CUTTING DEVICE, CHARGER, AND RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | LEE, LAURA MICHELLE | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18283924 | ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR A HAIR-CUTTING APPLIANCE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18276126 | BLADE SET FOR A HAIR CUTTING MACHINE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWahl GmbH has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Laura Michelle Lee has the most, with 1 of Wahl GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
