Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Wesco Electrode Co. Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The busiest examiner for the company is CONTRERAS, CIEL P, who is responsible for the only active matter.
Because the total number of pending actions is limited, this examiner accounts for the entirety of the company's current workload. This singular focus means the company's immediate prosecution outcomes depend on the findings of this individual. CONTRERAS, CIEL P is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's active patent filing.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONTRERAS, CIEL P | 1 | 54.3% | +33.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18427481 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR MANUFACTURE OF COPPER FOIL | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18427481 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR MANUFACTURE OF COPPER FOIL | CONTRERAS, CIEL P | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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