Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Steer-Tech LLC maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Currently, there is 1 pending office action for this company. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a highly focused prosecution profile where all current activity is centered on a single matter.
The busiest examiner for Steer-Tech LLC is HUTCHINSON, ALAN D, who is managing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the portfolio. For practitioners, this means that the entire current prosecution effort is concentrated with 1 examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is limited to this single administrative channel, simplifying the current interaction with the patent office for the 1 pending office action. This centralized approach simplifies communication but places significant importance on the single pending matter and its assigned examiner.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | 1 | 78.9% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19228079 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLING VEHICLES AT A SPECIFIED LOCATION | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19228079 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLING VEHICLES AT A SPECIFIED LOCATION | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19228079 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUSLY CONTROLLING VEHICLES AT A SPECIFIED LOCATION | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | 3669 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialSteer-Tech LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alan D Hutchinson has the most, with 1 of Steer-Tech LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.