Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Westlake Pipe & Fittings Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, showing a narrow scope of current prosecution activity. The matter is situated within a distinct art unit, pointing to a specific technical classification for the company's active patent application within the mechanical systems field. This concentration suggests that the current workload is highly specialized and confined to a single area of examination.
BOCHNA, DAVID is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing the pending office action. This matter accounts for all the pending activity reported for the company. The alignment of the pending matter under one examiner in one art unit suggests a very focused engagement with the patent office at this time. With only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the prosecution of this case represents the entire current workload for the company in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Practitioners should note that the outcome rests solely with the review conducted by BOCHNA, DAVID.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19297956 | ANTI-ROTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND A PIPE ASSEMBLY AND A SYSTEM HAVING SAME | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19297956 | ANTI-ROTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND A PIPE ASSEMBLY AND A SYSTEM HAVING SAME | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19297956 | ANTI-ROTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND A PIPE ASSEMBLY AND A SYSTEM HAVING SAME | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
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