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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Intellectual Frontiers LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. Examiner PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending action.
This distribution shows a moderate level of variety in the company's current prosecution efforts. With 3 pending office actions spread across 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple independent review tracks. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the technical subject matter is concentrated within a few specialized administrative groups at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 1 | 10.0% | +15.0% |
| BURGESS, JOSEPH D | 1 | 39.7% | +35.7% |
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 1 | 38.4% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963451 | COLLABORATIVE, CONTINUOUS, AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | NEWTON, CHAD A | 62d |
| 19026240 | COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SMART REFERRALS SYSTEM AND METHOD | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963451 | COLLABORATIVE, CONTINUOUS, AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | NEWTON, CHAD A | 62d |
| 19026240 | COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SMART REFERRALS SYSTEM AND METHOD | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | — |
| 18977822 | DIGITAL NATIVE TRIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BURGESS, JOSEPH D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 2 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19026240 | COMPUTER-CONTROLLED SMART REFERRALS SYSTEM AND METHOD | PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL | 3685 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18977822 | DIGITAL NATIVE TRIALS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BURGESS, JOSEPH D | 3685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18963451 | COLLABORATIVE, CONTINUOUS, AND COMPREHENSIVE RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialIntellectual Frontiers LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Sheryl Gopal Patel has the most, with 1 of Intellectual Frontiers LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
