Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gunderson LLC has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 examiners across 2 art units, creating some art-unit overlap without a recurring examiner assignment.
LIN, CHENG XI is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A coordinated claim approach can support consistency, while each response should address the particular examination path involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STERLING, AMY JO | 1 | 76.7% | +10.5% |
| LIN, CHENG XI | 1 | 84.9% | +13.4% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.7% | +16.9% |
| BROWNE, SCOTT A | 1 | 71.9% | +35.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743650 | TANKER RAILROAD CAR HAVING NON-CONTACT VOLUME SENSING ASSEMBLY | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19251213 | BELLCRANK MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FOR RAILCARS | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| 18920153 | ASYMMETRIC HOPPER CARS | LIN, CHENG XI | — |
| 18656882 | RAILROAD CAR HAVING INTERCONNECTED ROOF PANELS | BROWNE, SCOTT A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19251213 | BELLCRANK MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FOR RAILCARS | STERLING, AMY JO | — |
| 18920153 | ASYMMETRIC HOPPER CARS | LIN, CHENG XI | — |
| 18743650 | TANKER RAILROAD CAR HAVING NON-CONTACT VOLUME SENSING ASSEMBLY | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18656882 | RAILROAD CAR HAVING INTERCONNECTED ROOF PANELS | BROWNE, SCOTT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19251213 | BELLCRANK MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FOR RAILCARS | STERLING, AMY JO | 3632 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2025 |
| 18920153 | ASYMMETRIC HOPPER CARS | LIN, CHENG XI | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18743650 | TANKER RAILROAD CAR HAVING NON-CONTACT VOLUME SENSING ASSEMBLY | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18656882 | RAILROAD CAR HAVING INTERCONNECTED ROOF PANELS | BROWNE, SCOTT A | 3666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGunderson LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Amy Jo Sterling has the most, with 1 of Gunderson LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
