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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tie Down Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow scope of active prosecution. This centralization suggests that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific set of mechanical or transportation innovations. Practitioners should note that such a concentrated profile leaves little room for diversifying prosecution risks across different examiners or art units at this time.
MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M serves as the busiest examiner, handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 pending office action total, this examiner manages the complete set of active challenges for the company's pending applications. The outcome of this single interaction will dictate the immediate growth of the company's protected intellectual property in this technology area. This singular focus requires a precise response strategy tailored to the specific requirements and historical tendencies of the assigned examiner to ensure the successful advancement of the application.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 1 | 62.5% | +64.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413953 | ADJUSTABLE MATERIAL HOIST | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413953 | ADJUSTABLE MATERIAL HOIST | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18413953 | ADJUSTABLE MATERIAL HOIST | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTie Down Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shiref M Mekhaeil has the most, with 1 of Tie Down Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
