Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Altec Industries Inc. currently has 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 7 pending office actions are handled by 7 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single case. The portfolio is distributed across 6 distinct art units, suggesting a variety of technical focuses. OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The 7 distinct examiners involved provide a broad base of individual perspectives for the 7 pending office actions. This distribution across 6 distinct art units requires the company to adapt to many different examination styles within Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY, with 1 pending office action, holds the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the 7 pending office actions for consistency across the 6 distinct art units.
The 6 distinct art units represent a significant variety of technical examination standards that the company must meet. With 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, the prosecution is perfectly decentralized. OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY is identified as the busiest examiner despite only having 1 pending office action, reflecting the even distribution of work across the 7 distinct examiners.
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 | 4 (57%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 1 | 73.1% | +24.1% |
| RINK, RYAN J | 1 | 78.4% | +10.8% |
| NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V | 1 | 67.3% | +25.7% |
| TRAN, ZOE T | 1 | 57.7% | +46.5% |
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.1% | +3.5% |
| MARINI, MATTHEW G | 1 | 60.5% | +21.9% |
| JOS, BASIL T | 1 | 78.0% | +6.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774310 | MODULAR BODY COMPARTMENT | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18908012 | LANYARD DETECTION SYSTEM | TRAN, ZOE T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038997 | MANUAL OPERATION OF A REMOTE ROBOT ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V | 2d overdue |
| 19330125 | VIRTUAL BARRIERS FOR REMOTELY OPERATED EQUIPMENT | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | — |
| 19072562 | AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF AERIAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | RINK, RYAN J | — |
| 18908012 | LANYARD DETECTION SYSTEM | TRAN, ZOE T | — |
| 18222759 | OPERATION AND INSULATION TECHNIQUES | MARINI, MATTHEW G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19330125 | VIRTUAL BARRIERS FOR REMOTELY OPERATED EQUIPMENT | OSTROW, ALAN LINDSAY | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19072562 | AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF AERIAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | RINK, RYAN J | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19038997 | MANUAL OPERATION OF A REMOTE ROBOT ASSEMBLY | NGUYEN, KATHLEEN V | 2486 | Other | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18908012 | LANYARD DETECTION SYSTEM | TRAN, ZOE T | 3647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18774310 | MODULAR BODY COMPARTMENT | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 3612 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18222759 | OPERATION AND INSULATION TECHNIQUES | MARINI, MATTHEW G | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
| 18199570 | COORDINATE MAPPING FOR MOTION CONTROL | JOS, BASIL T | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
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