Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Glydways Inc. maintains 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The distribution of these actions across 5 distinct examiners suggests a broad spread of scrutiny, as the number of examiners matches the number of pending actions. This indicates that no single individual dominates the current workload.
The portfolio is further distributed across 4 distinct art units. This variety in art units reflects a range of technical classifications within the transportation and mechanical sectors. Examiner INSERRA, MADISON RENEE is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This suggests that while the workload is technically fragmented, the administrative burden is shared across the 5 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that the lack of examiner overlap across the 5 pending office actions may require distinct strategies for each individual prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSERRA, MADISON RENEE | 1 | 69.6% | +36.0% |
| ISMAIL, OMAR S | 1 | 91.2% | +10.0% |
| CAMBY, RICHARD M | 1 | 89.3% | +6.4% |
| REFAI, RAMSEY | 1 | 50.7% | +12.3% |
| MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 1 | 59.8% | +25.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18826020 | VARIABLE BANDWIDTH FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS OR SEMI-AUTONOMOUS PASSENGER VEHICLES | ISMAIL, OMAR S | — |
| 18671879 | TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | CAMBY, RICHARD M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19288823 | VEHICLE TRAJECTORY PRIORITIZATION IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM | INSERRA, MADISON RENEE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18387786 | TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 5d overdue |
| 18617388 | AUTONOMOUS RAIL OR OFF RAIL VEHICLE MOVEMENT AND SYSTEM AMONG A GROUP OF VEHICLES | REFAI, RAMSEY | 14d |
| 19288823 | VEHICLE TRAJECTORY PRIORITIZATION IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM | INSERRA, MADISON RENEE | — |
| 18826020 | VARIABLE BANDWIDTH FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS OR SEMI-AUTONOMOUS PASSENGER VEHICLES | ISMAIL, OMAR S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288823 | VEHICLE TRAJECTORY PRIORITIZATION IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM | INSERRA, MADISON RENEE | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 18826020 | VARIABLE BANDWIDTH FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS OR SEMI-AUTONOMOUS PASSENGER VEHICLES | ISMAIL, OMAR S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18671879 | TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | CAMBY, RICHARD M | 3661 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18617388 | AUTONOMOUS RAIL OR OFF RAIL VEHICLE MOVEMENT AND SYSTEM AMONG A GROUP OF VEHICLES | REFAI, RAMSEY | 3664 | §112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18387786 | TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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