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
The Crawford Group, Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, representing the full extent of the company's current pending prosecution activity. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's active patent efforts is entirely dependent on the review of this specific individual and the standards of the assigned art unit. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a narrow technical focus for the company's active filings.
SIMPSON, DIONE N is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner holds the entirety of the company's active workload. This concentration allows for a focused prosecution strategy, but it also means the company lacks the diversification that comes with having matters spread across multiple examiners. Practitioners should focus on the specific historical allowance rates and tendencies of SIMPSON, DIONE N, as this individual's decisions will define the current success of the company's patent filings.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMPSON, DIONE N | 1 | 32.3% | +32.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19263163 | Mobile Device-Enhanced Rental Vehicle Transactions | SIMPSON, DIONE N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19263163 | Mobile Device-Enhanced Rental Vehicle Transactions | SIMPSON, DIONE N | 3629 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialThe Crawford Group, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Dione N Simpson has the most, with 1 of The Crawford Group, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
