Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shape Corp. has 7 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Those matters involve 6 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner coverage within a narrower set of technical groups.
BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That concentration is modest, so docket management should combine art-unit coordination with separate examiner-specific response planning.
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 | 6 (86%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 2 | 85.2% | +3.8% |
| LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 1 | 89.9% | +8.5% |
| COLILLA, DANIEL JAMES | 1 | 67.6% | +22.6% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.2% |
| SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | 1 | 83.3% | +25.0% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.5% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466715 | ROCKER INSERT WITH PLURALITY OF ENCLOSED SECTIONS | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 34d |
| 19091122 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR STRUCTURE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
| 18955521 | VEHICLE FRONT RAIL | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — |
| 18666475 | SCALLOPED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL MEMBER | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18606803 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR ASSEMBLY | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19185388 | ROCKER COMPONENT WITH TAPERED SHAPE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678985 | ROLL-FORMED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL BEAM WITH REINFORCING INSERT | COLILLA, DANIEL JAMES | — |
| 18666475 | SCALLOPED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL MEMBER | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18606803 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR ASSEMBLY | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 4 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19185388 | ROCKER COMPONENT WITH TAPERED SHAPE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19091122 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR STRUCTURE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18955521 | VEHICLE FRONT RAIL | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18678985 | ROLL-FORMED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL BEAM WITH REINFORCING INSERT | COLILLA, DANIEL JAMES | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18666475 | SCALLOPED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL MEMBER | BEMKO, TARAS P | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18606803 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR ASSEMBLY | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18466715 | ROCKER INSERT WITH PLURALITY OF ENCLOSED SECTIONS | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShape Corp. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Gregory A Blankenship has the most, with 2 of Shape Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
