Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wirtgen GmbH currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, both of whom operate within 1 distinct art unit. ADDIE, RAYMOND W is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 2 of the 3 pending office actions.
The concentration of all 3 pending actions within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape for prosecution, even as the workload is split between 2 distinct examiners. With ADDIE, RAYMOND W managing 2 pending office actions, his individual examination style will have an impact on the portfolio. The remaining 1 pending action is handled by the second examiner, requiring the applicant to maintain 2 distinct examiner relationships to resolve the 3 active matters. This arrangement allows the applicant to focus on the standards of 1 distinct art unit while navigating the preferences of 2 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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% | +8.5% |
| RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 1 | 77.7% | +7.3% |
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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18809525 | MONITORING DEVICE FOR A SLIPFORM PAVER FOR MONITORING THE COMPACTION OF CONCRETE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE COMPACTION OF CONCRETE DURING THE OPERATION OF A SLIPFORM PAVER | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18626647 | Slipform Paver | ADDIE, RAYMOND W | — | §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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