Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Trans-Vac Systems LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners. Each examiner is responsible for one of the pending actions, providing two separate points of review.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. CRAWFORD, GENE O is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. This is half of the total 2 pending office actions for the company, with the other half handled by the second of the 2 distinct examiners.
The involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units suggests a varied technical scope even for a small number of actions. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific art unit and examiner for each of the 2 pending office actions. This distribution means that both of the 2 pending office actions require a unique technical and procedural strategy.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAWFORD, GENE O | 1 | 45.9% | +5.7% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435869 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING AIRFLOW AND CONTAMINATION IN LOADING STATIONS AND CHUTES OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 93d overdue |
| 19018766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDIRECTING AIRFLOW IN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS | CRAWFORD, GENE O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435869 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING AIRFLOW AND CONTAMINATION IN LOADING STATIONS AND CHUTES OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 93d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19018766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDIRECTING AIRFLOW IN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS | CRAWFORD, GENE O | 3651 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18435869 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING AIRFLOW AND CONTAMINATION IN LOADING STATIONS AND CHUTES OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 93d overdue | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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