Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Rf Controls LLC currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are split between 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each action is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having total control over the current portfolio. Such a spread of oversight can lead to a more robust set of granted patents by incorporating feedback from multiple experts.
MARCUS E WINDRICH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The actions are also spread across distinct art units. For a practitioner, this means that the 2 pending office actions must be negotiated independently, as there is no overlap between the examiners or the art units. This requires a highly individualized prosecution strategy for each case to address the specific concerns of the assigned examiners in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINDRICH, MARCUS E | 1 | 79.2% | +7.2% |
| ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 1 | 76.9% | +21.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230070 | WIDE AREA RFID TARGET ACQUISITION AND LOCATION SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING RFID DEVICES | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 5d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230070 | WIDE AREA RFID TARGET ACQUISITION AND LOCATION SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING RFID DEVICES | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| 2876 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934668 | SYNCHRONOUS DUAL BAND SIGNAL ACQUISITION AND SOURCE LOCATION SYSTEM | WINDRICH, MARCUS E | 3646 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18230070 | WIDE AREA RFID TARGET ACQUISITION AND LOCATION SYSTEM FOR PROGRAMMING RFID DEVICES | ELLIS, SUEZU Y | 2876 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRf Controls LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Marcus E Windrich has the most, with 1 of Rf Controls LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
