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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Forest River Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly varied technical classification for the company's mechanical filings. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations are being evaluated by different specialized groups within the USPTO's transportation and mechanical divisions.
The prosecution is handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each of the pending actions is being reviewed by a different official. ZHUO, WENWEI is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending action. This relationship between examiners and pending actions highlights a decentralized prosecution landscape where no specific official's feedback dominates the current trajectory of the company's active matters.
Because each action is assigned to a different examiner, the company must adapt to distinct sets of examiner preferences and interpretations. Practitioners should prepare for a variety of procedural nuances, as the lack of concentration among officials requires a versatile legal strategy. This distributed structure ensures that the company's progress in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector is shaped by a broad array of independent examiner perspectives.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHUO, WENWEI | 1 | 79.3% | +7.0% |
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.2% | +8.4% |
| BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 1 | 81.2% | +13.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19062104 | RECREATIONAL VEHICLE WITH ADJUSTABLE SLEEPING UNIT AND SYSTEM THEREOF | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — |
| 18982364 | RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AND ROOFING ASSEMBLY THEREOF | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18982364 | RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AND ROOFING ASSEMBLY THEREOF | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079556 | SEAL ASSEMBLY OF A SLIDE-OUT FOR A RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AND SYSTEM THEREOF | ZHUO, WENWEI | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19062104 | RECREATIONAL VEHICLE WITH ADJUSTABLE SLEEPING UNIT AND SYSTEM THEREOF | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 18982364 | RECREATIONAL VEHICLE AND ROOFING ASSEMBLY THEREOF | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 3676 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialForest River Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Wenwei Zhuo has the most, with 1 of Forest River Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
