Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Wepfer Technics AG has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This 2 to 2 ratio for examiners and art units suggests that the company's active cases involve different technical sub-specialties. By engaging with 2 different art units, the company is subject to multiple sets of examination standards. For the practitioner, this distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the perspectives of different technical groups within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
TRAN, JULIA C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is divided among the examiners. Each examiner manages 1 action, meaning the portfolio's prosecution is split between the identified personnel. This distribution means the company's outcomes are influenced by the findings of 2 different examiners across 2 separate art units. Strategically, the legal team must monitor how TRAN, JULIA C and the other examiner interpret the technical requirements of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, JULIA C | 1 | 62.5% | +31.9% |
| RAILEY, JENNIFER A | 1 | 79.5% | +8.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524324 | MOWER KNIFE DEVICE | TRAN, JULIA C | 53d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18524324 | MOWER KNIFE DEVICE | TRAN, JULIA C | 53d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524324 | MOWER KNIFE DEVICE | TRAN, JULIA C | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18266172 | Mower Knife Device | RAILEY, JENNIFER A | 3676 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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