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
Efferent LLC maintains a portfolio with 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is situated within 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused entry into the patent system. The prosecution is handled by a single distinct examiner, HAMILTON, MATTHEW L, who is currently the only official reviewing the company's pending applications.
Because HAMILTON, MATTHEW L is the busiest examiner, the company's current legal strategy is entirely dependent on this single examiner's review. This concentration in 1 art unit and under one examiner simplifies the administrative burden of prosecution. The data shows no evidence of broader technological dispersion or the need to manage multiple simultaneous office action responses across different examination groups. This allows the company to maintain a very specific and narrow focus on its current transportation and mechanical patent objectives.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 1 | 53.5% | +61.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19299148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLINICAL DATA INTEGRATION | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19299148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLINICAL DATA INTEGRATION | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 3682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialEfferent LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew L Hamilton has the most, with 1 of Efferent LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
