Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
BLUEiQ LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Christopher Richard Walker, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for this pending application.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current prosecution efforts are highly centralized. Christopher Richard Walker's role as the sole examiner means that the outcome of the current pending portfolio depends entirely on this single relationship. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the narrow scope of the current pending activity within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific preferences of this 1 distinct examiner and the standards of this 1 distinct art unit. This streamlined environment for 1 pending office action allows for a very targeted and efficient prosecution strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 1 | 73.0% | +18.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19216460 | SOFTWARE-DEFINED HYDROPHONE WITH ACOUSTIC SENSOR FUNCTIONS AND MACHINE LEARNING | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216460 | SOFTWARE-DEFINED HYDROPHONE WITH ACOUSTIC SENSOR FUNCTIONS AND MACHINE LEARNING | WALKER, CHRISTOPHER RICHARD | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialBLUEiQ LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher Richard Walker has the most, with 1 of BLUEiQ LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
