Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ti Group Automotive Systems LLC has 2 pending office actions focused in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, yet they both fall within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in a single art unit suggests that while the individual examiners differ, the overarching departmental standards and supervisory environment remain consistent across the pending portfolio. Practitioners can focus on the specific guidelines of this 1 distinct art unit while managing the 2 distinct examiners assigned to the active cases.
RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With only 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split between the 2 distinct examiners. The presence of 1 distinct art unit for both cases may allow for a more unified prosecution approach compared to portfolios spread across multiple departments. This structure ensures that the company only needs to navigate the procedural norms of one specific group within the patent office for its current 2 pending office actions.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19105876 | BLOCK FITTING ASSEMBLY WITH SEAL STRUCTURE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 30d overdue |
| 18570903 | CONNECTION ARRANGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FLUID LINE | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105876 | BLOCK FITTING ASSEMBLY WITH SEAL STRUCTURE | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18570903 | CONNECTION ARRANGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FLUID LINE | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §102 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTi Group Automotive Systems LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Alexander Tyler Rufrano has the most, with 1 of Ti Group Automotive Systems LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
