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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plusal Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CROMER, ANDREW J, who is also identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. Because the company's prosecution activity is limited to a sole distinct art unit, the legal strategy is highly concentrated within a specific technical classification at the patent office.
The presence of a lone pending office action under the review of an individual examiner suggests a very narrow but focused prosecution pipeline. For the practitioner, this means that the entirety of the company's current patent efforts in this sector depends on the specific tendencies and requirements of the named official. The involvement of the only distinct art unit further confirms that the active matter does not face the complexity of navigating multiple departmental standards. This centralized approach ensures that the pending office actions are subject to a single set of examiner preferences, simplifying the management of the portfolio's current workload. The 1 pending office action represents the total active engagement for the company in this technical field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROMER, ANDREW J | 1 | 75.8% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18940210 | REDUNDANT BRAKE AND BRAKE FAILOVER FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | CROMER, ANDREW J | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18940210 | REDUNDANT BRAKE AND BRAKE FAILOVER FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPlusal Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Andrew J Cromer has the most, with 1 of Plusal Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
