Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wisk Aero LLC currently has 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a relatively broad technological footprint for a portfolio of this size. The prosecution is being handled by 5 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is currently assigned to a different individual at the patent office.
HERRERA, MICHAEL J is noted as the busiest examiner, though this individual is only responsible for 1 pending office action. This highlights the lack of examiner concentration, as no single official manages more than one of the 5 pending office actions. For practitioners, this distribution across 4 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners suggests that prosecution outcomes will depend on a wide variety of examiner perspectives rather than a consistent relationship with a single primary contact.
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%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 1 | 64.8% | +29.2% |
| BUKHARI, AQEEL H | 1 | 85.6% | +14.3% |
| BARCENA, CARLOS | 1 | 80.5% | +12.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19093041 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLES WITH REDUNDANT POWER DISTRIBUTION CIRCUITS | BUKHARI, AQEEL H | 69d |
| 18637106 | CAPACITANCE REDUCTION IN BATTERY SYSTEMS | BARCENA, CARLOS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19093041 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLES WITH REDUNDANT POWER DISTRIBUTION CIRCUITS | BUKHARI, AQEEL H | 69d |
| 19197319 | LAND HAZARD COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A LANDING SITE AND A PILOTLESS AIRCRAFT | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18637106 | CAPACITANCE REDUCTION IN BATTERY SYSTEMS | BARCENA, CARLOS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2849 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19197319 | LAND HAZARD COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A LANDING SITE AND A PILOTLESS AIRCRAFT | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19093041 | ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLES WITH REDUNDANT POWER DISTRIBUTION CIRCUITS | BUKHARI, AQEEL H | 2849 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 18637106 | CAPACITANCE REDUCTION IN BATTERY SYSTEMS | BARCENA, CARLOS | 1723 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
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