Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Faiveley Transport Italia S.p.A. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners, meaning each individual is responsible for a single action. These examiners are situated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting some concentration of the portfolio's technical subject matter despite the variety of reviewers. The presence of 2 distinct art units implies that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated under different sets of internal USPTO guidelines.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This specific action is part of the active workload for the company. Because the pending office actions are spread across multiple examiners, the workload is not concentrated under a lone reviewer. Practitioners should note that the distribution across the art units may require tailored prosecution strategies for each unit's specific focus within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 1 | 80.0% | -32.1% |
| WHITTINGTON, JESS G | 1 | 72.8% | +17.8% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848339 | ELECTRONIC BRAKING INDICATION SYSTEM FOR AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE, PARTICULARLY AT LEAST ONE RAILWAY VEHICLE | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17979714 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 8d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17979714 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 8d overdue |
| 18252182 | SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A CONVOY, PARTICULARLY A RAILWAY CONVOY | WHITTINGTON, JESS G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848339 | ELECTRONIC BRAKING INDICATION SYSTEM FOR AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE, PARTICULARLY AT LEAST ONE RAILWAY VEHICLE | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18252182 | SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING THE INTEGRITY OF A CONVOY, PARTICULARLY A RAILWAY CONVOY | WHITTINGTON, JESS G | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
| 17979714 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2022 |
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