Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 currently has 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, which introduces a variety of perspectives into the prosecution of the company's patent applications. Despite this diversity in personnel, all 3 pending actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical focus.
The concentration in a single art unit indicates that while different examiners are involved, they likely share a common technical framework and supervisory environment. For practitioners, this means that while they must adapt to the individual styles of 3 distinct examiners, the underlying technical standards and prior art references may remain consistent across the 1 distinct art unit. This can allow for a more cohesive strategy across the 3 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for Wahl GmbH is MICHALSKI, SEAN M, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed. MICHALSKI, SEAN M and the other two examiners each manage a single case, meaning no individual examiner has more influence than another over the current portfolio. This distribution requires the company to maintain effective communication with three different officials simultaneously.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 1 | 53.1% | +13.2% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
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 |
| 18846523 | CHARGING STATION, HAIR CLIPPER AND ADAPTER FOR THE SAME | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 29d |
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 |
| 18846523 | CHARGING STATION, HAIR CLIPPER AND ADAPTER FOR THE SAME | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846523 | CHARGING STATION, HAIR CLIPPER AND ADAPTER FOR THE SAME | MICHALSKI, SEAN M | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Sep 12, 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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