Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 131 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wolverine Outdoors Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a focused prosecution path for this specific application. The examiner responsible for this matter is WEIS, RAQUEL M., who is also the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action.
The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specialized focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. Because there is only a single pending office action, the entire prosecution profile of the company rests on this individual interaction. The workload is concentrated, as WEIS, RAQUEL M. manages the totality of the company's current pending actions.
This singular focus allows for a direct and streamlined communication channel during the examination process. Practitioners should note that the alignment of 1 pending office action with a single examiner and art unit provides a very specific environment for prosecution. The outcome of the company's current efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends entirely on this individual review.
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 | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 1 | 43.8% | +61.6% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18906837 | SOLE ASSEMBLY AND RELATED METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | WEIS, RAQUEL M. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906837 | SOLE ASSEMBLY AND RELATED METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | WEIS, RAQUEL M. | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialWolverine Outdoors Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Raquel M. Weis has the most, with 1 of Wolverine Outdoors Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
