Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
257 pending office actions • 100 clients • 240 examiners • 168 art units • 0 of 257 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ALSTON & BIRD LLP has 259 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 23963 career applications. The active docket and extensive application history together describe a substantial prosecution practice in the stated technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 83.59%, and the average office actions per allowance is 3.83. Resolved applications therefore show allowance outcomes after several examination exchanges on average. These measures can inform staffing, response budgeting, and expectations for iterative claim development.
The pending-action figure addresses current examination activity, while the career measures summarize resolved applications. Practitioners should not treat the figures as predictions for a particular case because the profile does not identify examiner, client, claim type, or technology-specific variation.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 76 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 76 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 8 (3%) |
| §101 + other | 40 (16%) |
| §103 only | 70 (27%) |
| §102 only | 9 (4%) |
| §112 only | 14 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 8 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 9 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 95 (37%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (2%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON JR, MILTON | 3 | 84.6% | +5.6% |
| HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | 2 | 79.3% | +23.1% |
| WANG, JACK K | 2 | 61.5% | +12.4% |
| WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 2 | 82.6% | +17.8% |
| POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 2 | 37.7% | +23.9% |
| ROSARIO, DENNIS | 2 | 68.7% | +29.4% |
| GABLER, PHILIP F | 2 | 72.9% | +23.2% |
| HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 2 | 79.6% | +13.5% |
| ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 2 | 46.9% | +31.6% |
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2 | 86.6% | +13.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18996394 | MULTI-WAY LUMBAR SUPPORT SYSTEM | NELSON JR, MILTON | — |
| 18968597 | SEAT CUSHION WITH STIFFENER STRANDS | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329107 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTING PLATFORMS FOR EXECUTING CREDENTIAL-LESS NETWORK-BASED COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 239d overdue |
| 18566406 | FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 164d overdue |
| 18598536 | Efficient, Accurate, and Secure Transfers of Internally-Custodied Digital Assets | TC 3600, DOCKET | 141d overdue |
| 18254593 | POLYPEPTIDES FOR USE IN THE SYNTHESIS OF BIOACTIVE PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS | PAK, YONG D | 107d overdue |
| 18029224 | ENGINEERED STABLE LACTATE OXIDOREDUCTASES, COMPOSITIONS, DEVICES, KITS AND USES THEREOF | EIX, EMILY FAY | 104d overdue |
| 18494389 | APPARATUSES, COMPUTER-EXECUTED METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR REDUCED-RELIANCE APPLICATION ONBOARDING | KIM, PATRICK | 98d overdue |
| 18248975 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT | ALDERSON, ANNE-MARIE K | 89d overdue |
| 18216522 | Systems and Methods of Interacting with a Virtual Grid in a Three-dimensional (3D) Sensory Space | YI, RINNA | 87d 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329107 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTING PLATFORMS FOR EXECUTING CREDENTIAL-LESS NETWORK-BASED COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 239d overdue |
| 18664251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LOCATING A CONTROL OBJECT APPENDAGE IN THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) SPACE | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 71d overdue |
| 18769325 | MULTI-USER CONTENT SHARING IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 22d overdue |
| 18756506 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DUPLICATE DELIVERY PREVENTION FOR DYNAMICALLY CONNECTED TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | 16d overdue |
| 18665539 | Event Triggering in Phased-Array Systems | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 11d overdue |
| 18790311 | CUSHION, MANUFACTURING APPARATUS, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | HUSON, MONICA ANNE | 19d |
| 19293934 | DYNAMIC COMPUTING RESOURCE SET GENERATION AND ACCESS CONTROL | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | — |
| 19218309 | Minimizing Unwanted Responses in Haptic Systems | WANG, JACK K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 12 |
| 3761 | 6 |
| 1655 | 5 |
| 2877 | 4 |
| 2874 | 4 |
| 1658 | 4 |
| 2432 | 3 |
| 2845 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 3641 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19389887 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING AI-BASED GENERATIVE RESPONSIVE CONTENT OVER NETWORKS | Intentful Incorporated | SNIDER, SCOTT | 3621 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19329012 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUBSEA EQUIPMENT REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION | Sub-Drill Supply Limited | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2025 |
| 19312161 | VELOCITY FIELD INTERACTION FOR FREE SPACE GESTURE INTERFACE AND CONTROL | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | KETEMA, BENYAM | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19299686 | FLEXIBLE MICROCAVITIES, MULTI-FUNCTION FLEXIBLE HYBRID ELECTRONICS INTEGRATING THE SAME, AND SCREEN-PRINTING PROCESSES FOR FABRICATING THE SAME | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | ZIMMERMAN, JOSHUA D | 2853 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2025 |
| 19293934 | DYNAMIC COMPUTING RESOURCE SET GENERATION AND ACCESS CONTROL | Assurant, Inc. | HENDERSON, ESTHER BENOIT | 2458 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2025 |
| 19289421 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED INTEGRATION FRAMEWORKS | Paymentus Corporation | RONI, SYED A | 2432 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2025 |
| 19260211 | Mid-Air Haptic Textures | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | MARTINEZ QUILES, IVELISSE | 2626 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2025 |
| 19239550 | CALIBRATING OVERLAPPING FIELDS OF VIEW | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | BOYLAN, JAMES T | 2482 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 19222083 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED CELLS FOR ENHANCED IMMUNE EVASION IN ALLOGENEIC CELLULAR THERAPIES | BLUEROCK THERAPEUTICS LP | ZHU, JIANJIAN | 1631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 91d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19219364 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CONSUMER INTERACTIONS FOR PERFORMING PURCHASE COMMANDS | Bytedance Inc. | ALLEN, WILLIAM J | 3619 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19218309 | Minimizing Unwanted Responses in Haptic Systems | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | WANG, JACK K | 2686 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2025 |
| 19213521 | HYDROPONICS SYSTEM | Aquatree Global, LLC | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19206153 | AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSTIC RESOLUTION SYSTEM | Assurant, Inc. | BUTLER, SARAI E | 2114 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19201192 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MINIMIZING NORNICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN TOBACCO | North Carolina State University | FAN, WEIHUA | 1662 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19127009 | FASTENERS AND METHODS OF FASTENING FOAMLESS CUSHIONS | Lear Corporation | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 3636 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19188521 | ADAPTIVE AND DESIGN-AGNOSTIC ACTIVE WATERMARKING FOR AUTHENTICATION OF HARDWARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) CORE OWNERSHIP | University Of Research Foundation, Incorporated | SUH, ANDREW | 2493 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19177903 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Trygle Co., Ltd. | MITROS, ANNA MAE | 3689 | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19171612 | AERIAL-BASED FIREFIGHTING USING A SUSPENDED AUTONOMOUS FIRE EXTINGUISHER | Fire Neural Network | CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL | 3752 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
| 19098298 | SEAT CUSHION AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY | Lear Corporation | KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | 3632 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2025 |
| 19093874 | SELF-SUPPORTING SEGMENTED BLADDERS FOR REMOTE SENSING | Mission Support And Test Services, LLC | SMITH, MAURICE C | 2877 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19086732 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT EXTRACTION IN VISUAL MEDIA CONTENT | Assurant, Inc. | SALCE, JASON P | 2421 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2025 |
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc. | MOONEY, JAMES K | 2695 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19066087 | TOGGLE SWITCH CONTROL FOR LIGHTING DEVICE ACCESSORIES | Feit Electric Company, Inc. | KING, MONICA C | 2845 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19106883 | MOTOR FOR A TURNTABLE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Wilson Benesch Limited | GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19062539 | NEUTRAL AND/OR GROUND HARMONIC FILTER SYSTEM | Energy Eight, LLC | PATEL, RAKESH BHASKARBHAI | 2843 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19061127 | COMPUTING DEVICES WITH IMPROVED THERMAL MANAGEMENT | Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. | LEA EDMONDS, LISA S | 2847 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19059469 | MESH MEMBER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | Lear Corporation | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19105649 | METHOD, PROGRAM, AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING SMALL INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH | Atmo Biosciences Limited | BLOCH, MICHAEL RYAN | 3791 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19105642 | INGESTIBLE CAPSULE WITH ON-BOARD SENSOR HARDWARE | Atmo Biosciences Limited | TOMBERS, JOSEPH A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 | |
| 19057119 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTING PLATFORMS FOR EXECUTING CREDENTIAL-LESS NETWORK-BASED COMMUNICATION EXCHANGES | 1080 Network, Inc. | POPHAM, JEFFREY D | 2432 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19056470 | FIREARM EXTRACTOR | Whg Properties, LLC | KLEIN, GABRIEL J | 3641 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19053248 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM | Trygle Co., Ltd. | BORLINGHAUS, JASON M | 3692 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 19047204 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING MULTI-MODAL AUDIO SOURCE CHANNALIZATION SYSTEM | Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc. | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19100771 | AUTOMATED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM | Mtn Group Management Services (Proprietary) Limited | CASANOVA, JORGE A | 2165 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19043001 | Ceramic Inkjet Ink Compositions for Printing on Dental Restorations | Zima International, Inc. D/B/A Dandy | HON, SOW FUN | 1734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19041426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CERAMIC INKJET MESH PRINTING | Zima International, Inc. D/B/A Dandy | PROCTOR, CACHET I | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19041386 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GLAZING DENTAL RESTORATIONS WITH CERAMIC INK VIA INKJET PRINTER | Zima International, Inc. D/B/A Dandy | WIECZOREK, MICHAEL P | 1712 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19039200 | STRING SHOOTING DEVICE | Zipstring LLC | NICONOVICH, ALEXANDER R | 3711 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19037772 | LEARNING MEMORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | DARE, RYAN A | 2132 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19031373 | MODE SWITCHING FOR INTEGRATED GESTURAL INTERACTION AND MULTI-USER COLLABORATION IN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | DEMETER, HILINA K | 2617 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18996394 | MULTI-WAY LUMBAR SUPPORT SYSTEM | Lear Corporation | NELSON JR, MILTON | 3636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025063 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MULTICAST AUTHENTICATION IN NETWORK-ON-CHIP SYSTEMS | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. | MCFARLAND-BARNES, KELAH JANAE | 2431 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19021044 | ANALYZING CONTROL OBJECTS IN A FREE SPACE GESTURE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | ROSARIO, DENNIS | 2676 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19012697 | Method and Apparatus for Modulating Haptic Feedback | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | WANG, JACK K | 2686 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18879653 | SEAT COVER WITH WELDED TIE DOWN STRIPS AND METHOD OF SECURING A SEAT COVER TO A MESH SEAT STRUCTURE | Lear Corporation | TOLIN, MICHAEL A | 1745 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 19001000 | Reducing Harmonic Distortion by Dithering | Sim Ip Hxr LLC | JEANGLAUDE, JEAN BRUNER | 2845 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 19000302 | Organizations as Dissipative Structures Utilizing Cooperative Games to Dynamically Align Value, Strategy and Operations within a Probabilistic Framework | Value-Driven Strategic Consulting LLC | PUJOLS-CRUZ, MARJORIE | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18990898 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE ALLOCATION PREDICTION AND MODELING, AND RESOURCE ACQUISITION OFFER GENERATION, ADJUSTMENT AND APPROVAL | Assurant, Inc. | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18877819 | A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PROVIDING CARE | Ieso Digital Health Limited | MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH | 2657 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18877056 | RETAINER FOR A SEAT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY | Lear Corporation | ABRAHAM, TANIA | 3636 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial83.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Alston & Bird, LLP were allowed, across 23,963 applications in USPTO records.
3.83 office actions per allowed application on average.
257 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 100 clients, before 240 examiners in 168 art units.
