Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BNSF Railway Company

9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
5
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
2
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only2 (22%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
11% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
89% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GILLS, KURTIS 2 57.5% +29.2%
DALLO, JOSEPH J 1 89.7% +7.1%
MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 1 55.6% +66.7%
WONG, ALLEN C 1 83.2% +11.7%
CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 1 46.0% +34.5%
EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 1 29.5% +32.4%
WILDER, ANDREW H 1 62.9% +59.2%
LIN, CHENG XI 1 84.5% +14.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18911387 System and Method for Optimizing Utilization of Parking Lot Resources of a Hub based on a Dual-Stream Resource Optimization DALLO, JOSEPH J 15d overdue
18459212 LOCKED-AXLE SPRING COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD LIN, CHENG XI 27d
18435667 INTELLIGENT REAL-TIME INFORMATION INGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD WONG, ALLEN C 79d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18394046 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING TRACK MAINTENANCE EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 37d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18394046 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING TRACK MAINTENANCE EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 37d overdue
18911983 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC AND LOGICAL INTERMODAL PARKING LOT CLASSIFICATION GILLS, KURTIS 7d
18504817 INTERMODAL INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WILDER, ANDREW H 19d
18459212 LOCKED-AXLE SPRING COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD LIN, CHENG XI 27d
18435831 INTERMODAL INVENTORY VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 33d
18658510 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC TUNING OF CLASSIFICATION YARD PARAMETERS MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 34d
18435667 INTELLIGENT REAL-TIME INFORMATION INGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD WONG, ALLEN C 79d
18911863 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CLASSIFICATION OF CHASSIS POOLS FOR OPTIMIZING UTILIZATION OF CHASSIS RESOURCES OF A HUB BASED ON A DUAL-STREAM RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION GILLS, KURTIS

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 3
3627 2
3747 1
3658 1
2488 1
3615 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18911983 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC AND LOGICAL INTERMODAL PARKING LOT CLASSIFICATION GILLS, KURTIS 3624 §102 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Oct 10, 2024
18911387 System and Method for Optimizing Utilization of Parking Lot Resources of a Hub based on a Dual-Stream Resource Optimization DALLO, JOSEPH J 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Oct 10, 2024
18911863 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CLASSIFICATION OF CHASSIS POOLS FOR OPTIMIZING UTILIZATION OF CHASSIS RESOURCES OF A HUB BASED ON A DUAL-STREAM RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION GILLS, KURTIS 3624 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 10, 2024
18658510 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC TUNING OF CLASSIFICATION YARD PARAMETERS MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN 3658 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending May 08, 2024
18435667 INTELLIGENT REAL-TIME INFORMATION INGESTION SYSTEM AND METHOD WONG, ALLEN C 2488 §103 Non-Final OA 79d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18435831 INTERMODAL INVENTORY VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Feb 07, 2024
18394046 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCHEDULING TRACK MAINTENANCE EL-BATHY, MOHAMED N 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18504817 INTERMODAL INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WILDER, ANDREW H 3627 §102 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18459212 LOCKED-AXLE SPRING COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD LIN, CHENG XI 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Aug 31, 2023

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