Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
SmartDrive Systems Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The actions involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, so each listed matter has a separate examiner and technical-assignment context.
FIGUEROA, JAIME is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The distribution does not identify a dominant examiner, making matter-specific preparation important. Counsel should compare the separate records for recurring claim language or evidence needs without assuming that one response approach will transfer across the docket.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIGUEROA, JAIME | 1 | 85.4% | +13.1% |
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.1% | +37.7% |
| NIEVES FLORES, NEIT JOSAFAT | 1 | 38.5% | +80.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SPEED THRESHOLDS FOR VEHICLES | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING DRIVING PERFORMANCE FOR SIMULATED DRIVING | YIP, JACK | 13d |
| 19229088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SPEED THRESHOLDS FOR VEHICLES | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — |
| 18169059 | MEASURING OPERATOR READINESS AND READINESS TESTING TRIGGERING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | NIEVES FLORES, NEIT JOSAFAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19229088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SPEED THRESHOLDS FOR VEHICLES | FIGUEROA, JAIME | 3656 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 18633038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING DRIVING PERFORMANCE FOR SIMULATED DRIVING | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18169059 | MEASURING OPERATOR READINESS AND READINESS TESTING TRIGGERING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | NIEVES FLORES, NEIT JOSAFAT | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSmartDrive Systems Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Jaime Figueroa has the most, with 1 of SmartDrive Systems Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
