Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crane Payment Innovations Limited has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. All matters are assigned within 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The current docket is therefore concentrated in one prosecution channel, allowing counsel to examine the actions for recurring interpretations, claim language, and cited technical themes.
SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That examiner handles the complete reported workload. Counsel can develop a coordinated response plan for the transportation, payment, or mechanical subject matter, while still separating the factual record and claim limitations of each pending matter.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3 | 55.0% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842789 | MONEY ITEM HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHODS | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18842782 | MONEY ITEM HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHODS | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18842789 | MONEY ITEM HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHODS | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18842782 | MONEY ITEM HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHODS | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| 18252028 | AUTOMATED MONEY ITEM HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 2 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18842789 | MONEY ITEM HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHODS | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18842782 | MONEY ITEM HANDLING APPARATUS AND METHODS | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18252028 | AUTOMATED MONEY ITEM HANDLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION | SHAPIRO, JEFFREY ALAN | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCrane Payment Innovations Limited has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 1 examiners.
Jeffrey Alan Shapiro has the most, with 3 of Crane Payment Innovations Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
