Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wirtgen GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, indicating some examiner and technical-unit overlap within an otherwise varied prosecution docket.
ADDIE, RAYMOND W is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment represents a limited portion of the pending activity, while the remaining matters require coordination across other examination teams. A useful prosecution plan would pair centralized technical positions with examiner-specific responses where the art-unit context differs.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 2 | 81.1% | +8.6% |
| GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 1 | 51.4% | +44.3% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.2% |
| LEE, JONG SUK | 1 | 20.6% | +25.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18464324 | CURING MACHINE | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 20d |
| 18626647 | Slipform Paver | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19379824 | LOCATING A REFERENCE STATION SETUP POINT | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | — |
| 18673767 | SLIPFORM PAVER | LEE, JONG SUK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19379824 | LOCATING A REFERENCE STATION SETUP POINT | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | — |
| 19218755 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GROUND MILLING MACHINE | ANDRISH, SEAN D | — |
| 18673767 | SLIPFORM PAVER | LEE, JONG SUK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 2 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19379824 | LOCATING A REFERENCE STATION SETUP POINT | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2025 |
| 19324218 | AUTOMATED SENSOR SWITCHING | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3672 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19218755 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A GROUND MILLING MACHINE | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18673767 | SLIPFORM PAVER | LEE, JONG SUK | 2875 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
| 18626647 | Slipform Paver | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18464324 | CURING MACHINE | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Sep 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialWirtgen GmbH has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 5 examiners.
Raymond W Addie has the most, with 2 of Wirtgen GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
