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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Pitt-Ohio Express LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution spans 2 distinct art units, reflecting the technical distribution of the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings. This distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's active matters are subject to the specific standards of those assigned art units at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner is part of the total 2 pending office actions. With 2 distinct examiners involved, practitioners managing this portfolio must coordinate across individual examiner preferences. The fact that SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A handles this workload highlights the distribution of the current prosecution pipeline. This requires a strategy that accounts for the requirements of the 2 distinct examiners across the 2 distinct 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 1 | 65.5% | +34.2% |
| MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 1 | 19.0% | +23.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17945603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPARING THE EFFICIENCY OF OPERATORS | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 162d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17945603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPARING THE EFFICIENCY OF OPERATORS | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 162d overdue |
| 18999729 | JAMB FOR LOADING DOCK DOOR AND SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999729 | JAMB FOR LOADING DOCK DOOR AND SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 3634 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 17945603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPARING THE EFFICIENCY OF OPERATORS | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 3624 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 162d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialPitt-Ohio Express LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Johnnie A Shablack has the most, with 1 of Pitt-Ohio Express LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
