Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Whitewater West Industries, Ltd. has 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 8 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units. This indicates a broad distribution of the portfolio's current workload across different examiners and technical groups.
The busiest examiner, DILLON JR, JOSEPH A, is responsible for 1 pending action. Because there are 8 pending office actions and 8 distinct examiners, every pending matter is being handled by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap across the 7 distinct art units suggests a diverse range of mechanical engineering subjects are being prosecuted simultaneously.
The portfolio's 8 pending office actions are as diverse as possible in terms of personnel, with 8 distinct examiners involved. The 7 distinct art units further emphasize the breadth of the company's current prosecution efforts in the medical and mechanical fields, requiring unique strategies for each of the 8 pending matters. Practitioners must navigate 8 different examiner perspectives without a central point of contact.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DILLON JR, JOSEPH A | 1 | 81.0% | +6.7% |
| AWAD, AMR A | 1 | 36.4% | +20.4% |
| MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 1 | 50.7% | +33.1% |
| PETERS, BRIAN O | 1 | 72.9% | +16.2% |
| JIANG, YONG HANG | 1 | 61.5% | +20.6% |
| DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 1 | 55.2% | +30.1% |
| KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 1 | 39.4% | +54.9% |
| DEL SOLE, JOSEPH STEVEN | 1 | 36.7% | +14.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907415 | INTEGRATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BOOKING INFORMATION | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 21d |
| 17935918 | Ride Attraction and Method for Creating Impression of Rider Instability | DEL SOLE, JOSEPH STEVEN | 22d |
| 19066231 | CONJOINED MULTIPLE BOWL WATER SLIDE FEATURE | DILLON JR, JOSEPH A | — |
| 19052645 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PLAY CENTER | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 18904830 | INFLATABLE SURFING APPARATUS | PETERS, BRIAN O | — |
| 18602505 | INTERACTIVE AMUSEMENT ATTRACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | DENNIS, MICHAEL 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907415 | INTEGRATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BOOKING INFORMATION | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 21d |
| 17935918 | Ride Attraction and Method for Creating Impression of Rider Instability | DEL SOLE, JOSEPH STEVEN | 22d |
| 19052645 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PLAY CENTER | AWAD, AMR A | — |
| 18904830 | INFLATABLE SURFING APPARATUS | PETERS, BRIAN O | — |
| 18634750 | System and Method for Tracking Users or Objects and Providing Associated Data or Features Corresponding Thereto | JIANG, YONG HANG | — |
| 18602505 | INTERACTIVE AMUSEMENT ATTRACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | — |
| 18057150 | Pool Wave Generator | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| 2621 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| 1763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19066231 | CONJOINED MULTIPLE BOWL WATER SLIDE FEATURE | DILLON JR, JOSEPH A | 3653 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19052645 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PLAY CENTER | AWAD, AMR A | 2621 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18907415 | INTEGRATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING BOOKING INFORMATION | MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 3628 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18904830 | INFLATABLE SURFING APPARATUS | PETERS, BRIAN O | 3711 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18634750 | System and Method for Tracking Users or Objects and Providing Associated Data or Features Corresponding Thereto | JIANG, YONG HANG | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18602505 | INTERACTIVE AMUSEMENT ATTRACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18057150 | Pool Wave Generator | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 17935918 | Ride Attraction and Method for Creating Impression of Rider Instability | DEL SOLE, JOSEPH STEVEN | 1763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialWhitewater West Industries, Ltd. has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Joseph A Dillon Jr. has the most, with 1 of Whitewater West Industries, Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
