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
Universite De Technologie De Belfort-Montbeliard currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being examined within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a specific technical application for the university's research. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the communication for this pending application. This focused approach is typical for portfolios where a single, high-value innovation is being pursued within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The busiest examiner for the university is FERNSTROM, KURT, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 action pending in the entire portfolio, this examiner oversees the university's current active prosecution. The alignment of 1 action within 1 art unit under 1 examiner suggests a very narrow and focused entry into the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field at this time. Practitioners should carefully manage this single relationship, as the examiner's feedback will be the sole determinant of the university's immediate success in this technology area. The lack of other pending actions means there is no opportunity to leverage different examiner perspectives within the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERNSTROM, KURT | 1 | 65.8% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862864 | TRANSFORMABLE MULTIMATERIAL STRUCTURE OR OBJECT BASED ON ACTIVE MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR 4D PRINTING BY VOLUME STITCHING | FERNSTROM, KURT | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862864 | TRANSFORMABLE MULTIMATERIAL STRUCTURE OR OBJECT BASED ON ACTIVE MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR 4D PRINTING BY VOLUME STITCHING | FERNSTROM, KURT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862864 | TRANSFORMABLE MULTIMATERIAL STRUCTURE OR OBJECT BASED ON ACTIVE MATERIALS AND METHOD FOR 4D PRINTING BY VOLUME STITCHING | FERNSTROM, KURT | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialUniversite De Technologie De Belfort-Montbeliard has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kurt Fernstrom has the most, with 1 of Universite De Technologie De Belfort-Montbeliard's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
