Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wm Intellectual Property Holdings L L C is managing 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is currently being handled by a different person. This ratio of actions to examiners prevents any single examiner from having an outsized influence on the company's current portfolio.
The portfolio's activity is situated within 2 distinct art units. With the pending office actions split between only 2 art units, there is a higher likelihood of encountering similar examination cultures or shared prior art references across these cases compared to a more dispersed portfolio. This concentration allows the company to focus its prosecution strategy on the specific requirements of a limited number of technical groups.
GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the workload is perfectly balanced, with no single examiner managing more than 1 of the pending office actions. This distribution suggests a focused but multi-faceted prosecution strategy within the broader transportation and mechanical systems field, where the company must navigate the expectations of multiple examiners simultaneously.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | 1 | 71.7% | +11.5% |
| NGUYEN, TAM M | 1 | 77.1% | +11.6% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18768676 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ENHANCED FLUFFING, SORTING AND RECOVERY OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS FROM MIXED WASTE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18243386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF FEED COMPRESSORS IN AN RNG RECOVERY FACILITY FOR BIOGAS OR LANDFILL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18936228 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING ENGINEERED FUEL | GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | — |
| 18902508 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR RECOVERING METHANE AND CARBON DIOXIDE FROM BIOGAS AND REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS | NGUYEN, TAM M | — |
| 18768676 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ENHANCED FLUFFING, SORTING AND RECOVERY OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS FROM MIXED WASTE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18243386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF FEED COMPRESSORS IN AN RNG RECOVERY FACILITY FOR BIOGAS OR LANDFILL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18936228 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING ENGINEERED FUEL | GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18902508 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR RECOVERING METHANE AND CARBON DIOXIDE FROM BIOGAS AND REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS | NGUYEN, TAM M | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18768676 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR ENHANCED FLUFFING, SORTING AND RECOVERY OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS FROM MIXED WASTE | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18243386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF FEED COMPRESSORS IN AN RNG RECOVERY FACILITY FOR BIOGAS OR LANDFILL GAS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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