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 Trout Group, Inc. has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter is handled by 1 examiner in 1 art unit, creating a narrowly defined prosecution setting.
FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Practitioner effort can remain focused on the individual application and the examination practices of that art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19066258 | SOIL EXTRACTION/GROUTING DEVICE | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialThe Trout Group, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin F Fiorello has the most, with 1 of The Trout 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.