Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solidvue Inc. has 3 pending office actions currently active within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling exactly 1 pending matter for the company. The prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units, showing some technical concentration within the broader technology sector. This involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the 3 pending office actions cover related but distinct technical classifications within the transportation field.
GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The fact that 3 distinct examiners are assigned to 3 pending office actions suggests a lack of examiner-specific concentration in the current workload. Practitioners should note that while the 3 actions are split among 3 individuals, they are grouped within only 2 distinct art units, which may lead to some overlap in examination standards or prior art citations. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company is dealing with a distributed set of perspectives across its pending portfolio. This distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the individual tendencies of 3 different examiners while navigating the requirements of 2 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.4% | +8.6% |
| NATHAN, KEVIN CHRISTOPHER | 1 | — | — |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18689242 | FLASH LIDAR SENSOR USING ZOOM HISTOGRAMMING TDC | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | — |
| 18393795 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PHOTO DETECTOR | HELLNER, MARK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237342 | RANGING DEVICE | NATHAN, KEVIN CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18689242 | FLASH LIDAR SENSOR USING ZOOM HISTOGRAMMING TDC | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18393795 | SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PHOTO DETECTOR | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18237342 | RANGING DEVICE | NATHAN, KEVIN CHRISTOPHER | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSolidvue Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Josh Charles Gardiner has the most, with 1 of Solidvue Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
