Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Werner IP Law, P.C. handles patent prosecution in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, with 601 career applications on record. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 85.55 percent. Its prosecution history shows an average of 3.76 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm is managing 5 pending office actions.
The 601 career applications and 85.55 percent allowance rate establish the firm's historical performance in this sector. The 3.76 average helps practitioners understand the typical procedural requirements for reaching an allowance. With 5 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.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 1 | 75.3% | +9.9% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.8% | +27.7% |
| LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 1 | 69.8% | +13.4% |
| PHAM, QUANG | 1 | 54.2% | +57.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068187 | Metallic Dynamic Seal | BYRD, EUGENE G | 4d overdue |
| 19371590 | Hot-Swap System for a Hydraulic Fracturing System | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | — |
| 19007784 | Plug Tip and Seat for a Gas Lift Valve | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| 18707394 | Injection Fluids Comprising Propoxylated Alcohols and the Use of Such Fluids for Acid Stimulation During Oil Recovery Processes | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19007784 | Plug Tip and Seat for a Gas Lift Valve | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| 18707394 | Injection Fluids Comprising Propoxylated Alcohols and the Use of Such Fluids for Acid Stimulation During Oil Recovery Processes | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | — |
| 18353871 | System for Monitoring Temperature of Bearings | PHAM, QUANG | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Batfer Investment | 2 |
| Blue Topaz Technology, LLC | 1 |
| Sasol Chemie GmbH & Co. Kg | 1 |
| Metrologics, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19371590 | Hot-Swap System for a Hydraulic Fracturing System | Batfer Investment S.A. | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19068187 | Metallic Dynamic Seal | Batfer Investment S.A. | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 19007784 | Plug Tip and Seat for a Gas Lift Valve | Blue Topaz Technology, LLC | MURPHY, KEVIN F | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18707394 | Injection Fluids Comprising Propoxylated Alcohols and the Use of Such Fluids for Acid Stimulation During Oil Recovery Processes | Sasol Chemie GmbH & Co. Kg | LEFF, ANGELA MARIE DITRAN | 3674 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18353871 | System for Monitoring Temperature of Bearings | Metrologics, LLC | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
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