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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nearthlab Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, so the current activity is distributed across two separate examination settings.
YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner or art unit carries a repeated concentration.
Counsel can manage the matters individually while maintaining consistent treatment of related transportation technology. The available profile supports direct docket oversight and examiner-specific response planning rather than a broader coordination structure.
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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 1 | 77.8% | +14.3% |
| LIANG, HONGYE | 1 | 63.4% | +52.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19343545 | LAUNCHER AND LIFTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| 18868109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOVEMENT PATHS OF PLURALITY OF DRONES FOR INSPECTION OF INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE | LIANG, HONGYE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19343545 | LAUNCHER AND LIFTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | — |
| 18868109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOVEMENT PATHS OF PLURALITY OF DRONES FOR INSPECTION OF INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE | LIANG, HONGYE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19343545 | LAUNCHER AND LIFTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | YANKEY, RYAN ANDREW | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2025 |
| 18868109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOVEMENT PATHS OF PLURALITY OF DRONES FOR INSPECTION OF INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE | LIANG, HONGYE | 3664 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialNearthlab Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ryan Andrew Yankey has the most, with 1 of Nearthlab Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
