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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Troutwood, LLC manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. This level of activity suggests a moderate engagement with the patent office, requiring the management of multiple legal responses simultaneously. The current state of the portfolio indicates an active phase of securing rights for different mechanical or transportation innovations.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This spread indicates that the company's intellectual property spans different technical sub-sectors within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. KEVIN T POE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means the workload is divided, as the busiest examiner is responsible for a portion of the pending office actions.
For practitioners, the involvement of the distinct art units implies a need for technical arguments tailored to different examination groups. With 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to KEVIN T POE, the remaining action is handled by a different professional. This diversification ensures that the company's progress in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is not dependent on a single examiner's perspective, though it requires coordinating multiple response strategies.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POE, KEVIN T | 1 | 39.5% | +16.1% |
| PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 1 | 21.0% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17368124 | Method and System For Displaying Investment Returns | POE, KEVIN T | — |
| 17224062 | System and Method For Simulating Financial Growth Over a Period of Time | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17368124 | Method and System For Displaying Investment Returns | POE, KEVIN T | — |
| 17224062 | System and Method For Simulating Financial Growth Over a Period of Time | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3692 | 1 |
| 3691 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17368124 | Method and System For Displaying Investment Returns | POE, KEVIN T | 3692 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2021 |
| 17224062 | System and Method For Simulating Financial Growth Over a Period of Time | PUTTAIAH, ASHA | 3691 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialTroutwood, LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Kevin T Poe has the most, with 1 of Troutwood, LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
