Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amsted Rail Company, Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing a spread in the technical classification of their rail-related innovations. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, one for each pending matter.
The busiest examiner, FREJD, RUSSELL WARREN, is responsible for 1 pending action. With the 4 distinct examiners for the pending actions, the company faces a unique review for every active case. This distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that while the technology area is consistent, the specific mechanical systems vary enough to trigger different unit assignments.
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 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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% | +13.2% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| 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 3 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 | — |
| 18639198 | AUTONOMOUS RAIL VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 3 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. | — |
| 18639198 | AUTONOMOUS RAIL VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 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 |
| 18639198 | AUTONOMOUS RAIL VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 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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