Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amsted Rail Company, Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket spans 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, with no repeated assignment shown.
FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Each application should be handled according to its own rail-related disclosure, claim language, and office-action record. The available data does not indicate a shared examiner or unit practice requiring portfolio-level coordination.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN | 1 | 91.4% | +7.3% |
| JIN, GEORGE C. | 1 | 84.2% | +13.3% |
| KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 1 | 77.9% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19029084 | MOBILE RAILWAY ASSET MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHODS | JIN, GEORGE C. | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143805 | Apparatus for Locating a Mobile Railway Asset | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 60d |
| 19255436 | BRAKE MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR RAILCARS | FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143805 | Apparatus for Locating a Mobile Railway Asset | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 60d |
| 19029084 | MOBILE RAILWAY ASSET MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHODS | JIN, GEORGE C. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19255436 | BRAKE MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR RAILCARS | FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN | 3661 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19029084 | MOBILE RAILWAY ASSET MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHODS | JIN, GEORGE C. | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18143805 | Apparatus for Locating a Mobile Railway Asset | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAmsted Rail Company, Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Russell Warren Frejd has the most, with 1 of Amsted Rail Company, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
