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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Winston Products LLC currently manages a focused patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio features 1 pending office action, which represents the current active prosecution for this entity. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, VU, STEPHEN A, who is responsible for evaluating the technical claims. The prosecution is situated within a distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the pending application.
The busiest examiner, VU, STEPHEN A, is currently overseeing the 1 pending office action. This creates a concentrated prosecution environment where the outcome of the company's current patent efforts relies on the review of a single individual. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must be specifically tailored to the feedback and requirements of this one examiner. The lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units suggests a singular and direct path through the examination process, requiring a focused approach to address the specific concerns raised within the transportation and mechanical systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, STEPHEN A | 1 | 82.1% | +14.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081104 | COME ALONG DEVICE | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19081104 | COME ALONG DEVICE | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19081104 | COME ALONG DEVICE | VU, STEPHEN A | 3654 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialWinston Products LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen A Vu has the most, with 1 of Winston Products LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
