Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Whylot has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The docket covers 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates separate examiner handling with some technical concentration in the art-unit assignments.
GUGGER, SEAN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A practical approach is to coordinate semiconductor terminology and supporting disclosure across the 2 art units while preparing examiner-specific responses for the 3 assignments.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUGGER, SEAN A | 1 | 64.9% | +23.2% |
| ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 1 | 64.5% | +24.0% |
| ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 1 | 83.5% | +32.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879083 | STATOR OF AN AXIAL-FLOW ROTARY ELECTRICAL MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | — |
| 18294737 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR ASSEMBLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE ROTOR | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879083 | STATOR OF AN AXIAL-FLOW ROTARY ELECTRICAL MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | — |
| 18836868 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | — |
| 18294737 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR ASSEMBLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE ROTOR | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879083 | STATOR OF AN AXIAL-FLOW ROTARY ELECTRICAL MACHINE | GUGGER, SEAN A | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18836868 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 2834 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18294737 | METHOD AND TOOL FOR ASSEMBLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE ROTOR | ABRAHAM, JOSE K | 3729 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWhylot has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Sean A Gugger has the most, with 1 of Whylot's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
