Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
SCHROEDER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GROUP, LLC reports 270 career applications, 6 pending office actions, and a Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems focus. The record shows a defined application history and an active workload in a field where mechanical and digitally supported system features may overlap.
The resolved allowance rate is 81.63%, and the average is 4.99 office actions per allowance. These figures provide separate views of historical outcomes and examination effort. The combination can inform response planning, while not explaining whether individual matters were affected by prior art, eligibility, claim construction, or written-description issues.
Practitioners should review the prosecution histories for the technical features driving examination and the amendments used to address them. Particular attention to system boundaries, functional limitations, and preservation of intended commercial scope will make the aggregate indicators more useful in a matter-specific assessment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANES JR., JOHN | 2 | 47.6% | +38.8% |
| CAMPBELL, KEITH | 1 | 89.7% | +0.9% |
| SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 1 | 65.5% | +34.2% |
| SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 1 | 56.3% | +37.4% |
| EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1 | 43.4% | +43.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404250 | DOOR ASSEMBLY HAVING A SOFT BOTTOMED DOOR PANEL AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME | HANES JR., JOHN | 19d |
| 18994788 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR CONVEYING MATERIAL | CAMPBELL, KEITH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404250 | DOOR ASSEMBLY HAVING A SOFT BOTTOMED DOOR PANEL AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME | HANES JR., JOHN | 19d |
| 16247001 | TREATMENT INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR TREATING WORKPIECES | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 22d |
| 18404319 | DOOR ASSEMBLY HAVING A SOFT BOTTOMED DOOR PANEL AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME | HANES JR., JOHN | 26d |
| 18738152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN ROLL-UP DOORS | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | — |
| 17799718 | ELECTRON BEAM SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF A WORKPIECE | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Rytec Corporation | 3 |
| Onejoon GmbH | 1 |
| Pro-Beam GmbH & Co. Kgaa | 1 |
| Eisenmann | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 3 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 1712 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994788 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR CONVEYING MATERIAL | Onejoon GmbH | CAMPBELL, KEITH | 3651 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18738152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN ROLL-UP DOORS | Rytec Corporation | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 3634 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18404250 | DOOR ASSEMBLY HAVING A SOFT BOTTOMED DOOR PANEL AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME | Rytec Corporation | HANES JR., JOHN | 3634 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18404319 | DOOR ASSEMBLY HAVING A SOFT BOTTOMED DOOR PANEL AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME | Rytec Corporation | HANES JR., JOHN | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 17799718 | ELECTRON BEAM SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR THE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF A WORKPIECE | Pro-Beam GmbH & Co. Kgaa | SAMUELS, LAWRENCE H | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2022 |
| 16247001 | TREATMENT INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR TREATING WORKPIECES | Eisenmann SE | EMPIE, NATHAN H | 1712 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jan 14, 2019 |
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Start Free Trial81.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Schroeder Intellectual Property Law Group, LLC were allowed, across 270 applications in USPTO records.
4.99 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 4 clients, before 5 examiners in 4 art units.
