Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
SMR Patents S.à.r.l. has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, so the reported prosecution activity is limited to one examination setting.
MCNICHOLS, ERET C is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can address the docket through a focused review of that application and the examiner’s art-unit context.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 75.0% | -15.6% |
| MORGAN, EMILY M | 1 | 35.7% | +33.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050451 | REARVIEW DEVICE WITH MOVEABLE HEAD ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | — |
| 18473485 | FOLDING JOINT FOR REAR VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE | MORGAN, EMILY M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18473485 | FOLDING JOINT FOR REAR VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE | MORGAN, EMILY M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050451 | REARVIEW DEVICE WITH MOVEABLE HEAD ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING SAME | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 18473485 | FOLDING JOINT FOR REAR VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE | MORGAN, EMILY M | 3677 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSMR Patents S.à.r.l. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Eret C Mcnichols has the most, with 1 of SMR Patents S.à.r.l.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
