Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 clients • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
This profile covers Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals and has 8 pending office actions. Its career record includes 655 applications, with a resolved allowance rate of 78.81%. The data provides a current workload measure alongside a historical outcome measure.
The average of 2.6 office actions per allowance indicates the recorded prosecution interaction level for allowed matters. Practitioners can use the allowance rate when reviewing past results and the office-action average when planning effort, while keeping the pending docket distinct from resolved career outcomes.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 2 | 84.3% | +5.6% |
| REYES, REGINALD R | 1 | 40.9% | +31.5% |
| WAX, ROBERT A | 1 | 25.7% | +3.9% |
| GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 64.4% | +52.1% |
| NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1 | 66.0% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985084 | TREE FRUIT OR NUT HARVESTER TO MINIMIZE MACHINE PASSES IN THE ORCHARD | HARCOURT, BRAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200668 | HARVESTING APPARATUS INCLUDING A SHAKER HEAD AND BLOWER, AND RELATED METHODS | HARCOURT, BRAD | — |
| 18865316 | Membrane-forming composition, membrane-like composition, and use of same | WAX, ROBERT A | — |
| 18786235 | VACUUM HOSE PORT MOUNTING BRACKETS AND RELATED METHODS | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143052 | MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AMMONIA FROM ANAEROBIC DIGESTATE LIQUID | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 45d overdue |
| 19008253 | DIGITAL HEALTH ROBOTIC SYSTEM FEATURING DIGITAL HEALTH ROBOT DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | REYES, REGINALD R | 28d |
| 18786235 | VACUUM HOSE PORT MOUNTING BRACKETS AND RELATED METHODS | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Flory Industries | 2 |
| Lyons Global | 1 |
| Towa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | 1 |
| Hide-A-Hose Of Washington LLC | 1 |
| NATURAL AMMONIA PRODUCTS, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 2 |
| 3684 | 1 |
| 1615 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 1779 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200668 | HARVESTING APPARATUS INCLUDING A SHAKER HEAD AND BLOWER, AND RELATED METHODS | Flory Industries | HARCOURT, BRAD | 3674 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
| 19008253 | DIGITAL HEALTH ROBOTIC SYSTEM FEATURING DIGITAL HEALTH ROBOT DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS | Lyons Global, LLC | REYES, REGINALD R | 3684 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 02, 2025 |
| 18985084 | TREE FRUIT OR NUT HARVESTER TO MINIMIZE MACHINE PASSES IN THE ORCHARD | Flory Industries | HARCOURT, BRAD | 3674 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18865316 | Membrane-forming composition, membrane-like composition, and use of same | Towa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. | WAX, ROBERT A | 1615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18786235 | VACUUM HOSE PORT MOUNTING BRACKETS AND RELATED METHODS | Hide-A-Hose Of Washington LLC | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
| 18143052 | MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR PRODUCING AMMONIA FROM ANAEROBIC DIGESTATE LIQUID | Natural Ammonia Products, LLC | NORRIS, CLAIRE A | 1779 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial78.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Sierra Ip Law, Pc were allowed, across 655 applications in USPTO records.
2.60 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.
