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
Smart Shade Innovations Inc. has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner and 1 art unit, producing one focused examination path.
SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. That assignment covers the complete pending record, so the examiner’s treatment of the application should anchor the immediate prosecution plan.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 1 | 54.5% | +39.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436712 | ROLLER SHADE ASSEMBLY | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18436712 | ROLLER SHADE ASSEMBLY | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 3634 | §102 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSmart Shade Innovations Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew Richard Shepherd has the most, with 1 of Smart Shade Innovations Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
