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
Viam S R O has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. Such a narrow prosecution footprint indicates a highly specific technical focus for the company's current patent efforts. Because there is only a single examiner and a single art unit involved, the success of the company's current prosecution depends on the interactions within this specific office unit. This streamlined profile allows for a very targeted legal strategy, focusing all resources on the requirements of the assigned examiner.
CRAWFORD, GENE O is the busiest examiner, holding the 1 pending office action for the portfolio. For a practitioner, this means that the entire immediate future of the company's filings in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area rests on the review of this individual. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further emphasizes the specific technical channel through which these claims are being processed. This centralized prosecution requires a precise understanding of the examiner's past decisions and the art unit's general tendencies. The outcome of this interaction will define the current success rate for the 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAWFORD, GENE O | 1 | 45.9% | +5.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849585 | Device For Separating Arbitrarily Supplied Food Products | CRAWFORD, GENE O | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849585 | Device For Separating Arbitrarily Supplied Food Products | CRAWFORD, GENE O | 3651 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialViam S R O has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gene O Crawford has the most, with 1 of Viam S R O's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
