Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Welltec A/S has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 4 examiners across 3 art units, indicating separate examiner relationships with limited art-unit overlap.
MACDONALD, STEVEN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The docket supports individualized response planning, while the shared technology area may justify checking for consistent terminology and claim scope.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 1 | 80.3% | +13.0% |
| HALL, KRISTYN A | 1 | 82.1% | -5.9% |
| GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 1 | 85.2% | +8.6% |
| WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 1 | 86.0% | +9.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859942 | WIRELINE INTERVENTION TOOL STRING | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 16d |
| 19560851 | METHOD FOR CREATING A LANDING NIPPLE | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19538327 | WIRELINE CLEANING TOOL | HALL, KRISTYN A | — |
| 19355719 | DOWNHOLE TOOL | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19560851 | METHOD FOR CREATING A LANDING NIPPLE | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19560851 | METHOD FOR CREATING A LANDING NIPPLE | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 3674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2026 |
| 19538327 | WIRELINE CLEANING TOOL | HALL, KRISTYN A | 3672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2026 |
| 19355719 | DOWNHOLE TOOL | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 18859942 | WIRELINE INTERVENTION TOOL STRING | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWelltec A/S has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Steven A Macdonald has the most, with 1 of Welltec A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
