Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shape Corp. is handling 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is active across 3 distinct art units. GREGORY A BLANKENSHIP is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action.
The involvement of 3 distinct art units for only 4 pending actions suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are technically diverse and fall into several different specialized examination categories. Managing 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners requires coordinating with multiple patent office officials. This distribution across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's research and development efforts are spread across several technical classifications within the transportation and mechanical fields.
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 | 4 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.1% | +3.5% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.3% |
| SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 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 | — |
| 18666475 | SCALLOPED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL MEMBER | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 18606803 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR ASSEMBLY | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666475 | SCALLOPED VEHICLE STRUCTURAL MEMBER | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19091122 | VEHICLE CROSSMEMBER AND FLOOR STRUCTURE | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 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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