Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
American Solar Rail, LLC manages a company patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's technology is being evaluated under two different sets of technical classification standards. For practitioners, this split across 2 art units suggests that the portfolio covers diverse aspects of mechanical systems or transportation technology.
Despite the split in art units, the prosecution is centralized under 1 distinct examiner, MESHAKA, MAXWELL L. As the busiest examiner, MESHAKA, MAXWELL L is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This means that MESHAKA, MAXWELL L is handling the entirety of the company's 2 pending office actions. For the applicant, this creates a unique situation where a single examiner is applying their review criteria across two different technical divisions, providing a consistent point of contact for the company's entire active workload. This concentration under 1 examiner simplifies the advocacy process but also increases the impact of that individual's specific review style on the whole portfolio.
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%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 2 | 86.4% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17991238 | RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461874 | RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 61d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461874 | RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 61d |
| 17991238 | RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18461874 | RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
| 17991238 | RAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2022 |
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