Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Workaround GmbH is currently managing 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct art units, showing some technical overlap within the sector. The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, which means every pending action is assigned to a different person. This variety suggests that the company must adapt its arguments to many different individuals.
QUINN, RICHALE LEE is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are many distinct examiners for only 6 pending office actions, no single examiner has a larger influence than another. Practitioners must address the specific requirements of 4 distinct art units to resolve these matters. The distribution across the art units indicates that the pending office actions cover multiple technical niches.
With 6 pending office actions and many examiners, there is no examiner-level consolidation in this portfolio. QUINN, RICHALE LEE handles 1 pending office action, just like the other examiners involved. The art units represent the primary administrative hurdles for the company within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The lack of examiner-level consolidation means that previous successes with one individual may not predict outcomes for the other pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +30.4% |
| JOHNSON, SONJI N | 1 | 74.7% | +21.0% |
| ODOM, CURTIS B | 1 | 87.1% | +11.5% |
| SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 1 | 25.9% | +36.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115632 | METHOD FOR TRACKING A DEVICE, DEVICE AS WELL AS WORK SYSTEM | ODOM, CURTIS B | 128d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19432303 | GLOVE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | — |
| 17898431 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A WORK SYSTEM AS WELL AS SYSTEM COMPRISING A WORK SYSTEM | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115632 | METHOD FOR TRACKING A DEVICE, DEVICE AS WELL AS WORK SYSTEM | ODOM, CURTIS B | 128d overdue |
| 18370429 | CODE READER, CODE READING SYSTEM, WORK SYSTEM AS WELL AS METHOD | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 28d |
| 19432303 | GLOVE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | — |
| 17898431 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A WORK SYSTEM AS WELL AS SYSTEM COMPRISING A WORK SYSTEM | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| 2631 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19432303 | GLOVE | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2025 |
| 18370429 | CODE READER, CODE READING SYSTEM, WORK SYSTEM AS WELL AS METHOD | JOHNSON, SONJI N | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18115632 | METHOD FOR TRACKING A DEVICE, DEVICE AS WELL AS WORK SYSTEM | ODOM, CURTIS B | 2631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 128d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17898431 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A WORK SYSTEM AS WELL AS SYSTEM COMPRISING A WORK SYSTEM | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
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