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
Sullivan Ag Services, LLC currently faces 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a consolidated prosecution effort. Such a focused footprint suggests that the company is currently concentrating its resources on a specific technological advancement rather than a broad portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the company is SEBESTA, CHRISTOPHER J, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the entire pending workload is managed by one person, the firm's prosecution efficiency is directly tied to the throughput and feedback of this single examiner. Practitioners can expect a consistent dialogue with the patent office, as the absence of multiple examiners removes the risk of conflicting requirements from different art units. The strategy here appears to be a targeted approach to securing protection within the transportation and mechanical systems space.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEBESTA, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 77.8% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17899517 | Vehicle Platforms | SEBESTA, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3600 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17899517 | Vehicle Platforms | SEBESTA, CHRISTOPHER J | 3600 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSullivan Ag Services, LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Christopher J Sebesta has the most, with 1 of Sullivan Ag Services, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
