Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Whitewater West Industries, Ltd. is currently navigating 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical applications within their mechanical portfolio. The company is interacting with 7 distinct examiners, which suggests that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This level of examiner diversity often requires a more complex coordination effort to ensure consistency across the portfolio.
DILLON JR, JOSEPH A is the busiest examiner for the company, though he is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution, where the busiest examiner pending count is a small fraction of the total actions, highlights a highly decentralized prosecution environment. Practitioners must manage multiple distinct examiner preferences and art unit standards simultaneously to advance the company's interests in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The absence of examiner concentration suggests that the company's current patenting success is not tied to any single individual's review.
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% | +6.6% |
| AWAD, AMR A | 1 | 36.4% | +20.4% |
| MOLNAR, HUNTER A | 1 | 50.6% | +33.1% |
| PETERS, BRIAN O | 1 | 72.9% | +16.1% |
| ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| JIANG, YONG HANG | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 1 | 39.5% | +54.8% |
| DEL SOLE, JOSEPH STEVEN | 1 | 35.3% | +14.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18745898 | MODULAR PLAY CENTER | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | — |
| 18057150 | Pool Wave Generator | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 18057150 | Pool Wave Generator | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3711 | 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 | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19052645 | FLUID DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR PLAY CENTER | AWAD, AMR A | — | §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 | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18745898 | MODULAR PLAY CENTER | ELLIOTT, ANDREW JAMES | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 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 |
| 18057150 | Pool Wave Generator | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 3754 | §102§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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