Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Taisho Sky Building Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's mechanical systems are being reviewed in several different specialized groups. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners, providing a variety of perspectives on the company's patent applications.
HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and the distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with the busiest examiner responsible for a portion of the cases. This distribution across 3 distinct art units and 5 distinct examiners means the applicant must manage different examiner perspectives across the technical fields. No single examiner has a dominant influence over the current portfolio.
For a practitioner, the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems focus requires adapting to the specific requirements of the 3 distinct art units. The 1 pending office action under the busiest examiner represents one-fifth of the active workload. Because the cases are spread across multiple examiners, the legal team should be prepared for different technical standards and examiner expectations. Success for Taisho Sky Building Inc. depends on effectively managing these separate prosecution tracks to achieve favorable outcomes across the technical areas.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEL TORO-ORTEGA, JORGE G | 1 | 18.2% | +29.4% |
| HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 24.8% | +17.1% |
| CLARE, MARK C | 1 | 14.1% | +19.9% |
| WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 1 | 9.4% | +20.3% |
| VETTER, DANIEL | 1 | 20.3% | +8.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17463212 | TIME RENTAL FACILITY | VETTER, DANIEL | 56d overdue |
| 17578438 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RENTAL SPACE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 42d overdue |
| 18334654 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOURLY RENTAL FACILITIES | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 37d overdue |
| 18751251 | ON-DEMAND RENTAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | DEL TORO-ORTEGA, JORGE G | — |
| 17651937 | RENTAL SPACE | CLARE, MARK C | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17578438 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RENTAL SPACE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 42d overdue |
| 18334654 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOURLY RENTAL FACILITIES | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 37d overdue |
| 18751251 | ON-DEMAND RENTAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | DEL TORO-ORTEGA, JORGE G | — |
| 17651937 | RENTAL SPACE | CLARE, MARK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 4 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18751251 | ON-DEMAND RENTAL FACILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | DEL TORO-ORTEGA, JORGE G | 3628 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2024 |
| 18334654 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOURLY RENTAL FACILITIES | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 3628 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 37d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2023 |
| 17651937 | RENTAL SPACE | CLARE, MARK C | 3628 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2022 |
| 17578438 | INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR RENTAL SPACE | WERONSKI, MATTHEW S | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
| 17463212 | TIME RENTAL FACILITY | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTaisho Sky Building Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Jorge G Del Toro-Ortega has the most, with 1 of Taisho Sky Building Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
