Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
WCM Industries Inc. is currently overseeing 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is spread across 6 distinct art units, reflecting a range of mechanical and medical innovations. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which means that every one of the 6 pending office actions is being handled by a different person.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MURPHY, KEVIN F, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, no single examiner has a larger share of the workload than any other. This requires the company to manage 6 separate examiner relationships to move its current applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field toward issuance.
The fact that 6 distinct art units are involved indicates that the company's 6 pending office actions are technically distinct from one another. Practitioners must be prepared for 6 different examination styles, as each examiner will bring their own interpretation to the specific art unit they represent. This decentralized prosecution environment requires coordination to ensure consistent results across the entire portfolio.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.9% | +27.9% |
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.3% | +24.5% |
| CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | 1 | 57.3% | +31.0% |
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.5% | +17.1% |
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
| EGOAVIL, GUILLERMO J | 1 | 89.8% | +8.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18483185 | WATER AND GAS UTILITY CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RETROFITTING KIT | EGOAVIL, GUILLERMO J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820387 | ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT SUPPORT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 44d overdue |
| 19038942 | STRUT MOUNTING BRACKET ASSEMBLIES | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19009026 | DUAL-FUNCTION PIN FOR PUSH-PULL AND LIFT-TURN STOPPERS | CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | — |
| 18928849 | ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT SUPPORT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18820387 | ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT SUPPORT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 44d overdue |
| 19298498 | SHOWER DRAIN ASSEMBLIES | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| 19038942 | STRUT MOUNTING BRACKET ASSEMBLIES | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19009026 | DUAL-FUNCTION PIN FOR PUSH-PULL AND LIFT-TURN STOPPERS | CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | — |
| 18928849 | ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT SUPPORT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 2831 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19298498 | SHOWER DRAIN ASSEMBLIES | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19038942 | STRUT MOUNTING BRACKET ASSEMBLIES | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 3632 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19009026 | DUAL-FUNCTION PIN FOR PUSH-PULL AND LIFT-TURN STOPPERS | CRANE, LAUREN ASHLEY | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18928849 | ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT SUPPORT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18820387 | ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT SUPPORT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18483185 | WATER AND GAS UTILITY CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RETROFITTING KIT | EGOAVIL, GUILLERMO J | 2831 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWCM Industries Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 6 examiners.
Kevin F Murphy has the most, with 1 of WCM Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
