Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
WHG Properties LLC manages a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 5 pending office actions. These actions are handled by 4 distinct examiners, indicating a high degree of overlap relative to the portfolio size. KLEIN, GABRIEL J is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. The 5 pending office actions represent a focused docket for the applicant.
All 5 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings. Despite this concentration in 1 distinct art unit, the applicant still interacts with 4 distinct examiners. This requires the applicant to manage 4 different individual perspectives while operating within the framework of a single art unit. The presence of 2 busiest examiner pending actions with 1 examiner means that a significant portion of the pending workload is concentrated with KLEIN, GABRIEL J. Navigating these 5 pending office actions in 1 distinct art unit requires a specialized approach.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 2 | 65.9% | +24.4% |
| WEBER, JONATHAN C | 1 | 64.6% | +28.5% |
| CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | 1 | 69.6% | +18.6% |
| LEE, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 80.0% | +17.0% |
| TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 1 | 77.8% | +11.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18755210 | INSERT FOR A FIREARM SUPPRESSOR | LEE, BENJAMIN P | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18925285 | LOWER RECEIVER MOUNTED HANDGUARD | CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | 38d 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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18925285 | LOWER RECEIVER MOUNTED HANDGUARD | CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | 38d overdue |
| 19056470 | FIREARM EXTRACTOR | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 23d overdue |
| 18415075 | CAM SLOT FOR FIREARM | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 9d overdue |
| 18755210 | INSERT FOR A FIREARM SUPPRESSOR | LEE, BENJAMIN P | 4d overdue |
| 18969984 | FIREARM ASSEMBLIES WITH MULTIPLE GAS PORTS | WEBER, JONATHAN C | — |
| 18192787 | TAPERED BARREL INTERFACE | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056470 | FIREARM EXTRACTOR | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 3641 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18969984 | FIREARM ASSEMBLIES WITH MULTIPLE GAS PORTS | WEBER, JONATHAN C | 3641 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18925285 | LOWER RECEIVER MOUNTED HANDGUARD | CLEMENT, MICHELLE RENEE | 3641 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18755210 | INSERT FOR A FIREARM SUPPRESSOR | LEE, BENJAMIN P | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18415075 | CAM SLOT FOR FIREARM | TILLMAN, JR, REGINALD S | 3641 | DP | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 17, 2024 |
| 18192787 | TAPERED BARREL INTERFACE | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
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