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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pebble Mobility Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MERLINO, DAVID P, within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a narrow and focused prosecution profile, with all current activity centered on one application. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the success of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on this single relationship.
MERLINO, DAVID P is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should focus on the specific precedents and preferences of this examiner to move the pending action toward allowance. The presence of only 1 pending office action means that any delay or advancement in this case significantly impacts the overall timeline for the portfolio. Counsel must navigate the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit without the benefit of comparing results across other pending applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLINO, DAVID P | 1 | 71.1% | +10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19267345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUALLY TOWING AN AUTONOMOUS ELECTRIC-POWERED TRAILER | MERLINO, DAVID P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19267345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUALLY TOWING AN AUTONOMOUS ELECTRIC-POWERED TRAILER | MERLINO, DAVID P | 3665 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialPebble Mobility Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David P Merlino has the most, with 1 of Pebble Mobility Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
