Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
7Shifts Inc. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently in progress. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow focus for their current patenting activity. Such a focus suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently centered on a specific technical niche within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
CHISM, STEVEN R is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. As the total number of pending office actions is 1, CHISM, STEVEN R is the only one currently evaluating the company's work. The prosecution of this portfolio is therefore entirely dependent on the specific practices of this 1 distinct examiner. For a practitioner, this implies that understanding the historical allowance rates and preferences of CHISM, STEVEN R is critical for predicting the success of the 1 pending office action.
The presence of only the 1 distinct art unit further reinforces the specialized nature of the company's current filings. With the pending office action as the only active matter, the company's immediate legal focus is streamlined. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but also increases the impact of any single decision made by the assigned examiner within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHISM, STEVEN R | 1 | 30.8% | +42.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238358 | RESOURCE POOLING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | CHISM, STEVEN R | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18238358 | RESOURCE POOLING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | CHISM, STEVEN R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3692 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18238358 | RESOURCE POOLING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | CHISM, STEVEN R | 3692 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial7Shifts Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Steven R Chism has the most, with 1 of 7Shifts Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
