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
Tlc Millimeter Wave Products Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently contains 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under a single examiner and art unit suggests a streamlined prosecution focus. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the examination style of RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL to move the application forward. The focus within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area and the single art unit indicates a specific technical scope for the current filing. Successfully addressing the 1 busiest examiner pending action is the central task for the portfolio's current prosecution efforts. The alignment of the 1 pending office action with a single examiner in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector indicates a streamlined path for this specific 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 62.9% | +34.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462113 | MILLIMETER WAVE ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION SYSTEM NETWORK | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 83d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462113 | MILLIMETER WAVE ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION SYSTEM NETWORK | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18462113 | MILLIMETER WAVE ADVANCED THREAT DETECTION SYSTEM NETWORK | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTlc Millimeter Wave Products Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Clayton Paul Ridder has the most, with 1 of Tlc Millimeter Wave Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
