Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ycs Group LLC has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 distinct examiners but remain within 1 distinct art unit, indicating multiple examiner assignments in a shared technical examination setting. The difference between the action and examiner figures means that at least one examiner handles more than one pending matter.
WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles a substantial portion of the identified action load, while another examiner also contributes to the portfolio’s prosecution activity. Counsel should coordinate art-unit-level positions while tracking separate response requirements and examiner-specific concerns for the transportation and mechanical applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 2 | 38.5% | +39.7% |
| SPAR, ILANA L | 1 | 46.0% | +27.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466534 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | SPAR, ILANA L | 168d overdue |
| 17878717 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 40d |
| 18085047 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466534 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | SPAR, ILANA L | 168d overdue |
| 17878717 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 40d |
| 18085047 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18466534 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | SPAR, ILANA L | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 168d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18085047 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 17878717 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 01, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialYcs Group LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Ii, Allan J Woodworth has the most, with 2 of Ycs Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
