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
Recology Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action. This action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates that the company's current filing is concentrated in a specific technical field. The presence of 1 pending office action shows a targeted approach to its current intellectual property prosecution.
The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, Terrell Howard Matthews. This individual is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. The prosecution profile is currently limited to a single matter in one technical group. With only one distinct examiner involved, Terrell Howard Matthews is the sole official responsible for reviewing the company's active applications in the transportation and 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | 1 | 84.1% | +11.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171890 | ITEM SORTING APPARATUS AND INTERFACES THEREFOR | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171890 | ITEM SORTING APPARATUS AND INTERFACES THEREFOR | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171890 | ITEM SORTING APPARATUS AND INTERFACES THEREFOR | MATTHEWS, TERRELL HOWARD | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialRecology Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Terrell Howard Matthews has the most, with 1 of Recology Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
