Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beltways Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All pending office actions are assigned to a single examiner, JAMES R BIDWELL, who is the busiest examiner with 3 pending actions. This concentration means that 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit control the entirety of the company's current pending portfolio.
The fact that JAMES R BIDWELL oversees all 3 pending office actions suggests a highly centralized prosecution environment. This allows the applicant to maintain a consistent dialogue with the examiner across the entire portfolio. However, it also means that the company's success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector is heavily reliant on the discretion of 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should carefully analyze the previous rulings of JAMES R BIDWELL to optimize their strategy and ensure consistent results across the art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIDWELL, JAMES R | 2 | 89.7% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19343160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE SPEED MODULAR MOVING WALKWAYS | BIDWELL, JAMES R | 18d overdue |
| 19073760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE SPEED MODULAR MOVING WALKWAYS | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19343160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE SPEED MODULAR MOVING WALKWAYS | BIDWELL, JAMES R | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 19073760 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VARIABLE SPEED MODULAR MOVING WALKWAYS | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
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