Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wesco Distribution, Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The presence of only one active matter suggests a focused approach to intellectual property in this specific technology sector, where the applicant can prioritize a single set of examiner communications and procedural deadlines.
The busiest examiner for the company is FAULKNER, RYAN L, who is managing 1 pending office action. Because the company has only a single pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the current workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of this individual and the single art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. This arrangement minimizes the complexity of the company's current patent prosecution landscape and allows for a more direct path to resolution.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | 1 | 81.4% | +19.9% |
| FAULKNER, RYAN L | 1 | 67.7% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583624 | Ventilation Baffle | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 28d |
| 19133547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA RECORDS BASED ON SIMILARITY TO STORED RECORDS | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583624 | Ventilation Baffle | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 28d |
| 19133547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA RECORDS BASED ON SIMILARITY TO STORED RECORDS | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2168 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19133547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VECTOR REPRESENTATIONS OF DATA RECORDS BASED ON SIMILARITY TO STORED RECORDS | BHUYAN, MOHAMMAD SOLAIMAN | 2168 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 18583624 | Ventilation Baffle | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWesco Distribution, Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mohammad Solaiman Bhuyan has the most, with 1 of Wesco Distribution, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
