Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Gateway Services Inc.

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

Analysis

Gateway Services Inc. is managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to MILLER, WILLIAM L, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. Prosecution is concentrated, as the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.

Because there is 1 pending office action, the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. MILLER, WILLIAM L is the sole point of contact for this matter, and his review will determine the outcome. The applicant must focus their efforts on this single examiner within the specific art unit to advance the portfolio. This streamlined structure means that the prosecution is not divided across multiple examiners or technical groups. Resolving this single matter is the primary objective for the current prosecution cycle.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MILLER, WILLIAM L 1 79.0% +14.8%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18809594 BODY BAG FOR USE IN ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS MILLER, WILLIAM L —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18809594 BODY BAG FOR USE IN ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS MILLER, WILLIAM L —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3677 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18809594 BODY BAG FOR USE IN ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS MILLER, WILLIAM L 3677 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024

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