Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. Kg

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (17%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (50%)
§102 only2 (33%)
§112 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
3
Semiconductors
50% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, PAUL D 2 87.7% +6.6%
HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL 1 80.1% +21.9%
NGUYEN, TRUC T 1 87.4% +7.1%
FIGUEROA, FELIX O 1 58.1% +14.7%
KOCH, GEORGE R 1 72.7% +17.7%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18688319 ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING PLUG-IN SLOTS FOR ADDITIONAL MODULES HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL 37d overdue
18257447 PRESSING TOOL KIM, PAUL D 9d overdue
18294007 FUSE HOLDER NGUYEN, TRUC T 2d overdue
18257214 CRIMPING DRUM FOR A PRESSING TOOL AND PRESSING TOOL KIM, PAUL D 2d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18688319 ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING PLUG-IN SLOTS FOR ADDITIONAL MODULES HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL 37d overdue
18323953 CONNECTING BRIDGE AND ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING THE CONNECTING BRIDGE AND AT LEAST ONE BUSBAR FIGUEROA, FELIX O 26d
18310206 DEVICE FOR BUNDLING A NUMBER OF CABLES KOCH, GEORGE R 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3729 2
2841 1
2834 1
2831 1
1745 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18688319 ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING PLUG-IN SLOTS FOR ADDITIONAL MODULES HAUGHTON, ANTHONY MICHAEL 2841 §102 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18294007 FUSE HOLDER NGUYEN, TRUC T 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2024
18257447 PRESSING TOOL KIM, PAUL D 3729 §112 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2023
18257214 CRIMPING DRUM FOR A PRESSING TOOL AND PRESSING TOOL KIM, PAUL D 3729 §102 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18323953 CONNECTING BRIDGE AND ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING THE CONNECTING BRIDGE AND AT LEAST ONE BUSBAR FIGUEROA, FELIX O 2831 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 25, 2023
18310206 DEVICE FOR BUNDLING A NUMBER OF CABLES KOCH, GEORGE R 1745 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 01, 2023

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