Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arriver Software LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. The prosecution is split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different official in a different technical division, preventing any consolidation of strategy across the current workload. The use of 2 distinct art units suggests the company's innovations are categorized into different communication specialties.
The busiest examiner, LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H, is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, this examiner's workload represents a portion of the active matters. Practitioners must navigate the distinct procedural styles of 2 distinct examiners, as no individual official dominates the current portfolio activity. The lack of overlap between the examiners means that success in an application may not necessarily provide a roadmap for the other pending matter. Understanding the specific tendencies of LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H is essential for managing this specific pending office action.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H | 1 | 73.2% | +23.0% |
| MERLINO, DAVID P | 1 | 71.1% | +10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18086618 | GEOLOCATION OF KEY CRITICAL DRIVER BEHAVIOR AND SAFETY HAZARDS | LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H | — |
| 17500905 | ADVANCED DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS FEATURE ACTIVATION CONTROL USING DIGITAL MAP AND ON-BOARD SENSING TO CONFIRM SAFE VEHICLE OPERATION | MERLINO, DAVID P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18086618 | GEOLOCATION OF KEY CRITICAL DRIVER BEHAVIOR AND SAFETY HAZARDS | LITTLEJOHN JR, MANCIL H | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2022 |
| 17500905 | ADVANCED DRIVER-ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS FEATURE ACTIVATION CONTROL USING DIGITAL MAP AND ON-BOARD SENSING TO CONFIRM SAFE VEHICLE OPERATION | MERLINO, DAVID P | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 13, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialArriver Software LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Mancil H Littlejohn Jr. has the most, with 1 of Arriver Software LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
