Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • 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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Würth International AG currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of intellectual property interests relative to the current volume of active matters. The lack of concentration suggests that the portfolio is not currently facing a bottleneck within a single administrative unit at the patent office. The 3 pending office actions are being evaluated by different examiners, which may lead to varied outcomes.
Among the active personnel, CHEIN, ALLEN C is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution highlights that no examiner holds a majority of the workload for the company. Practitioners should note that the 3 distinct art units involved may require varied technical arguments tailored to the specific standards of each unit. Managing 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units requires a flexible approach to patent prosecution to address the unique requirements of the matters.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEIN, ALLEN C | 1 | 45.1% | +40.0% |
| SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 1 | 78.3% | +27.6% |
| HO, DAO Q | 1 | 83.1% | +32.1% |
| LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 1 | 69.3% | +35.4% |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687766 | CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY COMMUNICABLE TOKEN FOR MECHANICAL COUPLING AND COMMUNICATION WITH HAND-HELD TOOLS | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | — |
| 18292462 | Impact or Impulse Wrench and Method for Screwing in a Screw | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18846055 | Storage Rack, and Method for Managing the Contents of a Storage Rack | CHEIN, ALLEN C | 31d overdue |
| 18687766 | CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY COMMUNICABLE TOKEN FOR MECHANICAL COUPLING AND COMMUNICATION WITH HAND-HELD TOOLS | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | — |
| 18687789 | DIVERSIFIED CRAFTSMAN EQUIPMENT WITH TOKEN-COMPATIBLE CRAFTSMAN DEVICES | HO, DAO Q | — |
| 18292462 | Impact or Impulse Wrench and Method for Screwing in a Screw | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 2496 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18846055 | Storage Rack, and Method for Managing the Contents of a Storage Rack | CHEIN, ALLEN C | 3627 | §103 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18687766 | CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY COMMUNICABLE TOKEN FOR MECHANICAL COUPLING AND COMMUNICATION WITH HAND-HELD TOOLS | SHOLEMAN, ABU S | 2496 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18687789 | DIVERSIFIED CRAFTSMAN EQUIPMENT WITH TOKEN-COMPATIBLE CRAFTSMAN DEVICES | HO, DAO Q | 2432 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18292462 | Impact or Impulse Wrench and Method for Screwing in a Screw | LEEDS, DANIEL JEREMY | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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