Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP operates in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and has 6 pending office actions. Its career application record includes 630 applications, providing historical context for the current docket.
The resolved allowance rate is 81.64%, and the average office actions per allowance is 2.56. The allowance rate measures outcomes among resolved applications, while the action average reflects examination activity associated with allowed matters. Practitioners can consider current response obligations alongside these recorded prosecution indicators when reviewing the firm’s work in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.7% | +16.9% |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.8% | +8.7% |
| ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 1 | 72.2% | +19.6% |
| BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1 | 62.6% | +24.9% |
| DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 1 | 55.2% | +30.1% |
| WHITE, DYLAN C | 1 | 77.1% | +13.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17951384 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROPOSAL AND DONATION OF AN OBJECT | WHITE, DYLAN C | 80d overdue |
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18109457 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17951384 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROPOSAL AND DONATION OF AN OBJECT | WHITE, DYLAN C | 80d overdue |
| 18232911 | Wire Rope Hoist With Swivel Sheave | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 2d overdue |
| 18095083 | Plumber's Neck Putter with a Double Offset | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 79d |
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18109457 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | BELAY, DILNESSA B | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Columbus McKinnon | 3 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | 1 |
| M Ogden Putter | 1 |
| Exchange Technologies International, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 1736 | 1 |
| 3711 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | Columbus Mckinnon Corporation | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18592655 | Load Sensing Device for a Hoist | Columbus Mckinnon Corporation | MORELLO, JEAN F | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18232911 | Wire Rope Hoist With Swivel Sheave | Columbus Mckinnon Corporation | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18109457 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVE FOR FLASH JOULE HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | William Marsh Rice University | BELAY, DILNESSA B | 1736 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 18095083 | Plumber's Neck Putter with a Double Offset | M Ogden Putter Company LLC | DENNIS, MICHAEL DAVID | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 17951384 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROPOSAL AND DONATION OF AN OBJECT | Exchange Technologies International, Inc. | WHITE, DYLAN C | 3625 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial81.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Phillips Lytle LLP were allowed, across 630 applications in USPTO records.
2.56 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
