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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metrom Rail LLC has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners in 2 distinct art units, showing that the pending portfolio is divided across examination assignments.
SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A response strategy should preserve matter-specific tracking rather than assume a common examiner approach.
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 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| HO, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.5% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921581 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WORKER PROTECTION SYSTEM WITH ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) BASED ANCHOR NETWORK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921581 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WORKER PROTECTION SYSTEM WITH ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) BASED ANCHOR NETWORK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 17157523 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) BASED RAIL LINE SENSING AND SAFETY | HO, MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921581 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WORKER PROTECTION SYSTEM WITH ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) BASED ANCHOR NETWORK | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 17157523 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) BASED RAIL LINE SENSING AND SAFETY | HO, MATTHEW | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialMetrom Rail LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jason Christopher Smith has the most, with 1 of Metrom Rail LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
