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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to CHAMBERS, TROY, who is the only distinct examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is active in 1 distinct art unit, matching the single pending action.
CHAMBERS, TROY is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The single pending action suggests a specific prosecution presence for this entity. For a practitioner, the assignment of 1 pending office action to 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is focused on a single dialogue. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is confined to a specific technical classification.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current patent efforts are not diversified across multiple examiners or units. This concentration under CHAMBERS, TROY means that the examiner's interpretation of the prior art will be the primary factor in the outcome of the 1 pending office action. The 1 distinct art unit reflects the narrow technical scope of the current filing.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAMBERS, TROY | 1 | 60.4% | +4.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867452 | TRAIN SET | CHAMBERS, TROY | 3641 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Troy Chambers has the most, with 1 of Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
