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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delta Air Lines Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This pending work is a component of the company's strategy within the transportation sector. The prosecution is being conducted through 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the review follows the established protocols for that technical field.
The examiner assigned to this work is ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner overseeing the application, the prosecution remains highly centralized. This centralization means that the examiner's individual approach to the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field will be the primary influence on the outcome.
For the practitioner, the focus should be on the specific feedback from ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS. Since there is 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for multiple examiner styles. Instead, the goal is to satisfy the requirements of the 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit to achieve an allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.2% | +8.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537333 | SECURING A PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY DEVICE IN A SEATING AREA | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537333 | SECURING A PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY DEVICE IN A SEATING AREA | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDelta Air Lines Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Eric Lazarus Acosta has the most, with 1 of Delta Air Lines Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
