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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mako Rentals Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The current prosecution landscape for the company is narrow, involving only 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the pending application falls within a specific mechanical or e-commerce classification handled by a single specialized group. Such a focused presence at the patent office can simplify the management of intellectual property, as the company only needs to monitor the trends and rules of this 1 distinct art unit.
The 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SAYRE, JAMES G. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, this individual holds the sole responsibility for the company's current pending matters. Practitioners can concentrate their efforts on understanding the specific examination style of this 1 distinct examiner, as there are no other active officials to consider in the current portfolio analysis. With only a single pending matter, the company's immediate goal is to address the concerns of the assigned examiner to secure patent protection in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAYRE, JAMES G | 1 | 84.0% | +12.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16397768 | ROTATING AND RECIPROCATING SWIVEL APPARATUS AND METHOD | SAYRE, JAMES G | 2195d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16397768 | ROTATING AND RECIPROCATING SWIVEL APPARATUS AND METHOD | SAYRE, JAMES G | 3679 | Other | Non-Final OA | 2195d overdue | Pending | Apr 29, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialMako Rentals Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James G Sayre has the most, with 1 of Mako Rentals Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
