Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
3Form LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is managing a pending matter. The portfolio is also divided across 2 distinct art units, showing that each pending action is being reviewed in a different technical classification. This distribution indicates that the company's current prosecution is decentralized across both examiners and art units.
The busiest examiner is FOSTER, NICHOLAS L, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions, FOSTER, NICHOLAS L shares the busiest workload with the other examiner. For practitioners, this means there is no overlap in the current pending portfolio; each case must be handled as a unique interaction with a specific examiner and art unit. The lack of concentration suggests that 3Form LLC is pursuing different technical paths within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Each of the 2 pending office actions represents a separate effort to secure intellectual property in this sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 1 | 75.5% | +24.6% |
| NEGRON, ISMAEL | 1 | 73.6% | +15.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19017405 | MODULAR HANGING LIGHT FIXTURE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 7d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19017405 | MODULAR HANGING LIGHT FIXTURE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 7d |
| 19064505 | COUPLING ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19064505 | COUPLING ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3677 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19017405 | MODULAR HANGING LIGHT FIXTURE | NEGRON, ISMAEL | 2875 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
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Start Free Trial3Form LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Nicholas L Foster has the most, with 1 of 3Form LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
