Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
ecoATM LLC has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, creating five separate examination tracks.
WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use coordinated docket and claim-management practices while treating each examiner and art unit independently. The fully distributed structure makes consistent technical disclosure and matter-specific prior-art analysis important.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGGOT, BREFFNI | 1 | 35.7% | +25.8% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.7% | +7.6% |
| CHEN, XUEMEI G | 1 | 77.1% | +25.6% |
| OBAID, FATEH M | 1 | 68.0% | +35.3% |
| DOAN, PHUOC HUU | 1 | 91.6% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953582 | KIOSK FOR EVALUATING AND PURCHASING USED ELECTRONIC DEVICES | DOAN, PHUOC HUU | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18999025 | WIRELESS-ENABLED KIOSK FOR RECYCLING CONSUMER DEVICES | OBAID, FATEH M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19028465 | KIOSKS FOR EVALUATING AND PURCHASING USED ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | BAGGOT, BREFFNI | — |
| 19000287 | NEURAL NETWORK BASED PHYSICAL CONDITION EVALUATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHEN, XUEMEI G | — |
| 18999025 | WIRELESS-ENABLED KIOSK FOR RECYCLING CONSUMER DEVICES | OBAID, FATEH M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 2 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 2646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19028465 | KIOSKS FOR EVALUATING AND PURCHASING USED ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY | BAGGOT, BREFFNI | 3621 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19028563 | KIOSK FOR RECYCLING ELECTRONIC DEVICES | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3627 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19000287 | NEURAL NETWORK BASED PHYSICAL CONDITION EVALUATION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | CHEN, XUEMEI G | 2661 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18999025 | WIRELESS-ENABLED KIOSK FOR RECYCLING CONSUMER DEVICES | OBAID, FATEH M | 3627 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18953582 | KIOSK FOR EVALUATING AND PURCHASING USED ELECTRONIC DEVICES | DOAN, PHUOC HUU | 2646 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialecoATM LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Breffni Baggot has the most, with 1 of ecoATM LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
