Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ye Ventures LLC currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations are being reviewed under different technical classifications. The prosecution involves a matching number of distinct examiners, which means each pending matter is being handled by a separate individual at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is WEINER, ARIELLE E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are multiple pending actions in total, the workload is split between the assigned examiners. Practitioners should note that no single examiner holds a majority of the current workload, requiring a tailored approach for each distinct art unit involved in the prosecution.
The presence of distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests that the company's patent strategy covers multiple mechanical or e-commerce specialties. With the pending office actions to address, the legal team must coordinate responses across these separate administrative divisions. Monitoring the specific tendencies of WEINER, ARIELLE E and the other examiner will be essential for achieving successful outcomes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOLWINE, SHANE D | 1 | 86.5% | +20.5% |
| WEINER, ARIELLE E | 1 | 43.4% | +53.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780055 | INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER | WOOLWINE, SHANE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780139 | RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 140d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780139 | RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 140d overdue |
| 18780055 | INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER | WOOLWINE, SHANE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2124 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18780055 | INFINITE RESERVOIR TRANSFORMER | WOOLWINE, SHANE D | 2124 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18780139 | RETAILER LINKED DIALOGUES: CHATTING, CARTING, AND CARING | WEINER, ARIELLE E | 3689 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 140d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialYe Ventures LLC has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Shane D Woolwine has the most, with 1 of Ye Ventures LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.