Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Wasserbauer Law LLC

Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

10 pending office actions • 7 clients • 10 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Wasserbauer Law LLC handles patent prosecution in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, with 353 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 86.74 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 1.97 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 6 pending office actions.

The 353 career applications and 86.74 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 1.97 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 6 pending office actions, the firm maintains its presence in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. This data set reflects the firm's documented experience and current workload within the patent office. The recorded metrics provide a baseline for procedural duration in this specific field. Practitioners can evaluate the intensity of examiner interaction and resource requirements based on these historical figures. These statistics offer a view of the firm's prosecution profile.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=353 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

86.7%
Allowance Rate
n=353
+0.34σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=353
2.0
OAs to Allowance
n=242
-0.92σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=242
982 days
Time to Allowance
n=242
+6.0pp
Interview Lift
n=353
12.9%
RCE Rate
n=353
1.2%
Appeal Rate
n=353

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

—
§101 Overcome
n=7 (min 20)
69.8%
§102 Overcome
n=63
67.5%
§103 Overcome
n=83
80.4%
§112 Overcome
n=112

Specialization & Scale

A61G, A61B, Y02E
Top CPC Subclasses
23%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=353
1
Practitioners
n=353
353.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=353

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

5
Hard (50%)
4
Medium (40%)
1
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (10%)
§102 only2 (20%)
Double-patenting only1 (10%)
Double-patenting + other2 (20%)
Multi-statute (no §101)4 (40%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
10% of docket
1
Information Tech
10% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
10% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
2
Business / Other
20% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BARNETT, DEVIN K 1 56.6% +26.2%
KU, SI MING 1 72.7% +32.7%
HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 1 45.6% +35.8%
GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 1 54.7% +13.8%
BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D 1 58.4% +30.0%
DOLAK, JAMES M 1 78.8% +18.3%
RODRIGUEZ, SAUL 1 44.3% +36.7%
JAFFRI, ZEHRA 1 58.8% +51.8%
MIYOSHI, JESSE Y 1 57.0% +18.7%
CONLEY, FREDRICK C 1 70.6% +12.8%

Hard Cases (5)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18452513 EMBOLIC COIL, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MAKING MULTIPLE SELF-ADAPTIVE LOOPS WITH IMPROVED ANCHORING AND FILLING JAFFRI, ZEHRA 50d overdue
18806656 CURVED LAMINATED SOLAR PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 39d
18931032 LIGHT BASED THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS HOUGH, JESSANDRA F —
18790437 CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D —
18499696 PICK FLAT PLACE CURVED ASSEMBLY TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD RODRIGUEZ, SAUL —

Interview Candidates (10)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18452513 EMBOLIC COIL, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MAKING MULTIPLE SELF-ADAPTIVE LOOPS WITH IMPROVED ANCHORING AND FILLING JAFFRI, ZEHRA 50d overdue
18307606 PEG SUPPORT MEMBER CONLEY, FREDRICK C 11d overdue
18806656 CURVED LAMINATED SOLAR PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 39d
19291510 CLAMP ASSEMBLY USING PINS BARNETT, DEVIN K —
19233389 CLAMP WITH MOUNT FOR A SURGICAL RETRACTOR KU, SI MING —
18931032 LIGHT BASED THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS HOUGH, JESSANDRA F —
18790437 CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D —
18636648 AERODYNAMIC HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A VEHICLE DOLAK, JAMES M —

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37961
17211
24451
36131
36521
37711
28981
36791

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19291510 CLAMP ASSEMBLY USING PINS Pmc Industries, Inc. BARNETT, DEVIN K DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 05, 2025
19233389 CLAMP WITH MOUNT FOR A SURGICAL RETRACTOR Innovative Medical Products, Inc. KU, SI MING §102§103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
18931032 LIGHT BASED THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS Hair Group, LLC HOUGH, JESSANDRA F 3796 §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 29, 2024
18806656 CURVED LAMINATED SOLAR PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF Aptera Motors Corp. GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA 1721 §103§112Other Non-Final OA 39d Pending Aug 15, 2024
18790437 CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM Artis Property Pty Ltd. BIAGINI, CHRISTOPHER D 2445 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18636648 AERODYNAMIC HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A VEHICLE Aptera Motors Corp. DOLAK, JAMES M 3613 §102§112DP Final Rejection — Pending Apr 16, 2024
18499696 PICK FLAT PLACE CURVED ASSEMBLY TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD Aptera Motors Corp. RODRIGUEZ, SAUL 3652 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 01, 2023
18452513 EMBOLIC COIL, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MAKING MULTIPLE SELF-ADAPTIVE LOOPS WITH IMPROVED ANCHORING AND FILLING Ndi Medical Technologies Inc. JAFFRI, ZEHRA 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18331908 MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL BAND STRUCTURES FOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES Microglass, LLC MIYOSHI, JESSE Y 2898 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 08, 2023
18307606 PEG SUPPORT MEMBER Innovative Medical Products, Inc. CONLEY, FREDRICK C 3679 §102 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Apr 26, 2023

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