Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Waukesha Bearings Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 pending office action constitutes the company's entire active patent prosecution. The portfolio's examination is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current filings are situated within a single technical niche at the patent office.
WAITS, ALAN B is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this 1 busiest examiner pending office action is the only one pending, the relationship with this individual is central to the company's current prosecution. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means the company can focus its resources on the specific tendencies of these single entities. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio by limiting the number of different examiner requirements the company must meet.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAITS, ALAN B | 1 | 68.8% | +29.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898858 | MODULAR BEARING WITH REPLACEABLE, PIVOT-CONNECTED PADS | WAITS, ALAN B | 42d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898858 | MODULAR BEARING WITH REPLACEABLE, PIVOT-CONNECTED PADS | WAITS, ALAN B | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898858 | MODULAR BEARING WITH REPLACEABLE, PIVOT-CONNECTED PADS | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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