Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ferno-washington Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. Each action therefore presents a separate examiner and examination-group context, requiring counsel to distinguish the relevant technical record rather than rely on one shared prosecution pattern.
DIAZ, THOMAS C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That assignment represents one of the two current examiner matters, not the whole docket. Counsel should coordinate the overall claim strategy but prepare responses independently, with particular attention to the transportation or mechanical features examined in each art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIAZ, THOMAS C | 1 | 68.3% | +19.3% |
| GUTMAN, HILARY L | 1 | 71.7% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819653 | COT LOADING AND UNLOADING SYSTEMS HAVING A FIXED RAIL WITH A REMOVABLE SECTION | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18819653 | COT LOADING AND UNLOADING SYSTEMS HAVING A FIXED RAIL WITH A REMOVABLE SECTION | DIAZ, THOMAS C | — |
| 18640746 | FASTENER POST ASSEMBLIES AND EMERGENCY COTS INCLUDING FASTENER POST ASSEMBLIES | GUTMAN, HILARY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18819653 | COT LOADING AND UNLOADING SYSTEMS HAVING A FIXED RAIL WITH A REMOVABLE SECTION | DIAZ, THOMAS C | 3617 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18640746 | FASTENER POST ASSEMBLIES AND EMERGENCY COTS INCLUDING FASTENER POST ASSEMBLIES | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 3612 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFerno-washington Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Thomas C Diaz has the most, with 1 of Ferno-washington Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
