Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Wirtgen GmbH

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (67%)
1
Easy (17%)
1
Unknown (17%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (67%)
§112 only1 (17%)
No statute on record1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
17% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
33% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROWN JR, HOWARD D 1 87.9% +6.9%
KRECK, JANINE MUIR 1 78.1% +13.4%
DO, AN H 1 90.6% +6.8%
BARBEE, MANUEL L 1 81.7% +14.7%
ADDIE, RAYMOND W 1 81.4% +8.2%
GUNN, JEREMY L 1 29.2% +45.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18476463 DETERMINING MILLED VOLUME OR MILLED AREA OF A MILLED SURFACE BARBEE, MANUEL L 12d
18464324 CURING MACHINE ADDIE, RAYMOND W 20d
18512148 Method And Device For Determining An Area Cut With A Cutting Roll By At Least One Construction Machine Or Mining Machine DO, AN H 54d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18061055 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE EFFORT REQUIRED FOR A PLANNED MILLING TASK PERFORMED OR TO BE PERFORMED USING A ROAD-MILLING MACHINE GUNN, JEREMY L 138d overdue

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18061055 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE EFFORT REQUIRED FOR A PLANNED MILLING TASK PERFORMED OR TO BE PERFORMED USING A ROAD-MILLING MACHINE GUNN, JEREMY L 138d overdue
18476463 DETERMINING MILLED VOLUME OR MILLED AREA OF A MILLED SURFACE BARBEE, MANUEL L 12d
18810649 MILLING ATTACHMENT WITH ADJUSTABLE COVER KRECK, JANINE MUIR 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2488 1
3672 1
2853 1
2857 1
3671 1
3624 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19051610 System comprising construction machine, transport vehicle with loading space and image-recording device, and method for displaying an image stream during the loading or unloading of a transport vehicle BROWN JR, HOWARD D 2488 Other Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2025
18810649 MILLING ATTACHMENT WITH ADJUSTABLE COVER KRECK, JANINE MUIR 3672 §112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18512148 Method And Device For Determining An Area Cut With A Cutting Roll By At Least One Construction Machine Or Mining Machine DO, AN H 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Nov 17, 2023
18476463 DETERMINING MILLED VOLUME OR MILLED AREA OF A MILLED SURFACE BARBEE, MANUEL L 2857 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 28, 2023
18464324 CURING MACHINE ADDIE, RAYMOND W 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Sep 11, 2023
18061055 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE EFFORT REQUIRED FOR A PLANNED MILLING TASK PERFORMED OR TO BE PERFORMED USING A ROAD-MILLING MACHINE GUNN, JEREMY L 3624 §103 Final Rejection 138d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022

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