Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Wavemark Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, yet both are located within 1 distinct art unit. KIMBERLY SUZANNE BURSUM is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This workload is shared equally with the other examiner involved in the portfolio.
This structure shows that while the company must deal with 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution is administratively concentrated within a single art unit. The 1 distinct art unit provides a consistent procedural environment for both of the 2 pending office actions. However, the applicant must still account for the different review styles of the 2 distinct examiners. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area covers both of these active matters. Practitioners should note that the busiest examiner, KIMBERLY SUZANNE BURSUM, only manages 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means the progress of the portfolio is split between two different individuals within the same administrative group, requiring a strategy that balances examiner variety with art unit consistency.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 1 | 33.9% | +11.8% |
| WILDER, ANDREW H | 1 | 62.7% | +57.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18634290 | FILTERING CROSS READS AMONG RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) ENABLED READERS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE THEREOF | WILDER, ANDREW H | 409d overdue |
| 18949692 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING PRODUCT EXPIRATION | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18949692 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING PRODUCT EXPIRATION | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18634290 | FILTERING CROSS READS AMONG RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) ENABLED READERS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE THEREOF | WILDER, ANDREW H | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 409d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWavemark Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Kimberly Suzanne Bursum has the most, with 1 of Wavemark Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
