Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mx Technologies Inc. is currently managing 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 4 distinct examiners and are spread across 3 distinct art units. This configuration indicates that while the company has several active matters, they are being reviewed by a diverse group of examiners. Because the count of 4 examiners exceeds the 3 art units, at least some examiners are operating within the same department, which may provide some administrative consistency.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BAIRD, EDWARD J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 4 distinct examiners handles 1 of the pending actions, the workload is distributed across the group. Practitioners should be aware that this requires managing different examiner personalities while navigating the standards of 3 separate art units. The presence of multiple examiners means no single official has more influence than another over the current portfolio. The strategy must balance individualized arguments for each examiner with the broader departmental standards of the 3 art units involved. This distribution requires a coordinated effort to ensure that technical arguments remain consistent across the 4 pending office actions while addressing the specific concerns of each examiner.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 1 | 44.1% | +53.1% |
| HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 1 | 40.4% | +28.8% |
| CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 1 | 48.5% | +25.1% |
| EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 1 | 1.9% | +1.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16559396 | AUTOMATED ENTERPRISE TRANSACTION DATA AGGREGATION AND ACCOUNTING | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 45d overdue |
| 19032438 | PAYMENT PROCESSING | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 22d |
| 17978184 | TRANSACTION BASED FRAUD DETECTION | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 41d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19032438 | PAYMENT PROCESSING | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 22d |
| 17978184 | TRANSACTION BASED FRAUD DETECTION | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 41d |
| 17070911 | ACCOUNT VERIFICATION | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19032438 | PAYMENT PROCESSING | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W | 3693 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 17978184 | TRANSACTION BASED FRAUD DETECTION | HILMANTEL, ADAM J | 3691 | §101 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17070911 | ACCOUNT VERIFICATION | CRAWLEY, TALIA F | 3627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2020 |
| 16559396 | AUTOMATED ENTERPRISE TRANSACTION DATA AGGREGATION AND ACCOUNTING | EKECHUKWU, CHINEDU U | 3695 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialMx Technologies Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Michael W Anderson has the most, with 1 of Mx Technologies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
