Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Werner Co. is managing 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, yet they are concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This concentration suggests that while the examiners vary, the technical focus remains within a narrow set of art units. Practitioners can anticipate that the 5 distinct examiners may share similar perspectives or follow common guidelines established within these 2 specific art units.
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 pending actions and 5 distinct examiners, each examiner is currently handling exactly 1 case. This distribution means the company must coordinate with a different individual for every active office action in its portfolio. Managing 5 separate examiner relationships while staying within 2 art units requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the broader technical standards of those units. The presence of 5 pending actions indicates a steady volume of work within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, requiring coordinated efforts across multiple examiners.
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 | 3 (60%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 1 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 1 | 51.1% | +19.0% |
| CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 1 | 57.3% | +40.4% |
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 1 | 62.6% | +64.1% |
| PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 1 | 45.5% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881164 | CONTAINER AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19020584 | Interlocking Work Platform and System | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — |
| 18881164 | CONTAINER AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | — |
| 18933518 | EXTENSION LADDER WITH GROOVE BOX RAILS AND METHOD | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 18758400 | PLATFORM WITH HANDLE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — |
| 18380991 | RUNG WITH A FLARED BEADED JOINT | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020584 | Interlocking Work Platform and System | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18881164 | CONTAINER AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18933518 | EXTENSION LADDER WITH GROOVE BOX RAILS AND METHOD | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18758400 | PLATFORM WITH HANDLE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18380991 | RUNG WITH A FLARED BEADED JOINT | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2023 |
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