Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Matsuo Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners across an equal number of distinct art units. This structure indicates that each pending case is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different administrative unit. The lack of overlap suggests that the company's current active matters cover distinct technical or functional areas within the mechanical systems sector.
ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 2 total pending office actions, the workload is split evenly between the examiners. This requires the company to maintain prosecution strategies tailored to separate examiners and their respective art units. For the practitioner, this means there is no central point of contact at the USPTO, necessitating a strategy that addresses the specific requirements and examination styles of each individual examiner across the two separate art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 1 | 42.0% | +25.7% |
| WHITTINGTON, KENNETH | 1 | 70.9% | -14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424866 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 63d |
| 18579229 | CORE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CORE | WHITTINGTON, KENNETH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424866 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18424866 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18579229 | CORE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CORE | WHITTINGTON, KENNETH | 3992 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMatsuo Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Gabriel P Anfinrud has the most, with 1 of Matsuo Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
