Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Welltec A/S has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's pending work is spread across multiple examiners, even though the total number of actions is small. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in transportation and mechanical systems are being reviewed by several specialized groups within the patent office.
The busiest examiner is HALL, KRISTYN A, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending actions, each examiner is responsible for 1 action. This means that prosecution for the company is not concentrated under 1 individual, requiring practitioners to navigate the preferences of 4 different examiners across 3 art units. This lack of consolidation means that the outcome of 1 case may not necessarily influence the others. Practitioners must manage 4 separate examiner relationships to advance the company's pending patent applications while maintaining a consistent overall strategy.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, KRISTYN A | 1 | 82.0% | -6.0% |
| GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | 1 | 85.1% | +8.6% |
| RO, YONG-SUK | 1 | 85.5% | +7.7% |
| WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 1 | 85.9% | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859942 | WIRELINE INTERVENTION TOOL STRING | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 16d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19538327 | WIRELINE CLEANING TOOL | HALL, KRISTYN A | — |
| 19355719 | DOWNHOLE TOOL | GAY, JENNIFER HAWKINS | — |
| 19105932 | WELLBORE FISHING TOOL | RO, YONG-SUK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19105932 | WELLBORE FISHING TOOL | RO, YONG-SUK | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18859942 | WIRELINE INTERVENTION TOOL STRING | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
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