Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH has 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending actions, the workload is spread across multiple individuals. Practitioners can expect technical oversight from the 2 art units even as they navigate the individual preferences of these examiners. The concentration in these units suggests that the actions share some technical commonalities.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.2% | +13.3% |
| WILLIAMS, ARUN C | 1 | 82.1% | +16.4% |
| MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 1 | 86.6% | +15.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868241 | Rail Vehicle with Pneumatic Suspension | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18580406 | Power Supply Device, Vehicle, and Vehicle Infrastructure | WILLIAMS, ARUN C | — |
| 18579079 | Large Component for a Rail Vehicle | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18696727 | Rail Vehicle Having a Carriage Coupling Device | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868241 | Rail Vehicle with Pneumatic Suspension | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18696727 | Rail Vehicle Having a Carriage Coupling Device | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| 18580406 | Power Supply Device, Vehicle, and Vehicle Infrastructure | WILLIAMS, ARUN C | — |
| 18579079 | Large Component for a Rail Vehicle | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 3 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868241 | Rail Vehicle with Pneumatic Suspension | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18696727 | Rail Vehicle Having a Carriage Coupling Device | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18580406 | Power Supply Device, Vehicle, and Vehicle Infrastructure | WILLIAMS, ARUN C | 2859 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18579079 | Large Component for a Rail Vehicle | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSiemens Mobility Austria GmbH has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Jason Christopher Smith has the most, with 1 of Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
