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
Maria Hirayama has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter involves 1 examiner and 1 art unit. HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The profile reflects a single, concentrated examination path.
Counsel can focus directly on the examiner’s interpretation of the claimed transportation or mechanical system and on the cited art identified in the office action. The response should explain concrete component relationships and operating steps, rather than relying only on intended use. No parallel examiner or art-unit assignment is shown, so no cross-matter coordination is required. A targeted amendment or interview can be evaluated against the specific claim scope and prosecution record.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 1 | 81.2% | +20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729435 | FIN | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18729435 | FIN | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729435 | FIN | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMaria Hirayama has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Justin Michael Heston has the most, with 1 of Maria Hirayama's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
