Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Walter AG has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 examiners and 2 art units, showing examiner-level dispersion across a smaller set of technical examination environments.
DUMBRIS, SETH M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Consistent treatment of recurring claim concepts may help portfolio management, while the separate examiner assignments call for application-specific responses.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNYDER, ALAN W | 2 | 82.2% | +12.3% |
| DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1 | 76.4% | +16.7% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 59.0% | +40.8% |
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18694226 | THREAD MILLING CUTTING TOOL | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18574527 | THREAD CUTTING DRILL TOOL FOR METAL CUTTING | RUFO, RYAN C | 39d |
| 19125851 | THREAD MILLING TOOL AND CUTTING ELEMENT THEREFOR | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18030521 | DRILL POINT | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 29d |
| 18574527 | THREAD CUTTING DRILL TOOL FOR METAL CUTTING | RUFO, RYAN C | 39d |
| 19125851 | THREAD MILLING TOOL AND CUTTING ELEMENT THEREFOR | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
| 18721945 | COATED CUTTING TOOL | DUMBRIS, SETH M | — |
| 18694226 | THREAD MILLING CUTTING TOOL | SNYDER, ALAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 4 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19125851 | THREAD MILLING TOOL AND CUTTING ELEMENT THEREFOR | SNYDER, ALAN W | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 18721945 | COATED CUTTING TOOL | DUMBRIS, SETH M | 1784 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18694226 | THREAD MILLING CUTTING TOOL | SNYDER, ALAN W | 3722 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18574527 | THREAD CUTTING DRILL TOOL FOR METAL CUTTING | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18030521 | DRILL POINT | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWalter AG has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Alan W Snyder has the most, with 2 of Walter AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
