Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
4Knines LLC operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus in the company's current patent prosecution, with all activity concentrated on 1 specific matter.
WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Current prosecution is focused on this single examiner, allowing for a streamlined communication process. The company does not have to manage multiple conflicting timelines or different examiner preferences across its current pending matters.
The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is highly specialized within the transportation and mechanical systems field. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific examination trends of this 1 unit. Although the portfolio currently has only 1 pending action, the centralized nature of the prosecution provides a clear focus for the company's immediate patenting goals.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 1 | 82.6% | +17.8% |
| TRAN, PHI DIEU | 1 | 65.5% | +22.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068303 | VEHICLE DOOR GUARD | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18485757 | INTERIOR DOOR GUARD | TRAN, PHI DIEU | 34d |
| 19068303 | VEHICLE DOOR GUARD | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068303 | VEHICLE DOOR GUARD | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 3636 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18485757 | INTERIOR DOOR GUARD | TRAN, PHI DIEU | 3633 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial4Knines LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Rodney Barnett White has the most, with 1 of 4Knines LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
