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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zunum Aero Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner. The filing is located within a distinct art unit, showing a fully concentrated prosecution profile. With a single examiner and a single art unit, the prosecution strategy is focused on this single interaction.
SANDERSON, JOSEPH W is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the total count of pending office actions for the company. Practitioners must address this action independently within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. The concentration in a single art unit means the filing is subject to specific group-level policies.
The pending office action represents the total workload for the company at the patent office. The workload distribution shows that SANDERSON, JOSEPH W is the sole individual currently reviewing the company's applications. This focused environment allows for a highly targeted prosecution approach. Each of the figures indicates a single, unified point of contact for the company's current pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 1 | 77.4% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18951260 | HYBRID-ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT, AND METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING SAME | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 23d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18951260 | HYBRID-ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT, AND METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING SAME | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 23d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18951260 | HYBRID-ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT, AND METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING SAME | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 3644 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZunum Aero Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Joseph W Sanderson has the most, with 1 of Zunum Aero Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
