Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Three Smith Group Limited has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination environments within the technology area.
AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Application-specific responses are appropriate, while portfolio review should guard against inconsistent positions across the three assignments.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 1 | 72.9% | +10.0% |
| AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 1 | 42.9% | +51.4% |
| RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 1 | 78.1% | +3.2% |
| MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | 1 | 56.3% | +15.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121549 | WAREHOUSE INFRASTRUCTURE | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | — |
| 18864041 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19121549 | WAREHOUSE INFRASTRUCTURE | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | — |
| 18864041 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | — |
| 17786026 | ANCHOR ASSEMBLY | MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19121549 | WAREHOUSE INFRASTRUCTURE | MITCHELL, NATHAN A | 3627 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2025 |
| 18864041 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 3635 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18701859 | DAMAGE DETECTION SYSTEM | RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 2677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 17786026 | ANCHOR ASSEMBLY | MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThree Smith Group Limited has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Nathan A Mitchell has the most, with 1 of Three Smith Group Limited's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
