Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WARD AND SMITH, P.A. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 958 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 91.97%, showing that most resolved applications in the recorded portfolio reached allowance. The historical application total adds context to the active docket.
The practice averages 2.27 office actions per allowance. This indicates that favorable outcomes commonly follow a limited number of examination exchanges, although responses and claim amendments may still be needed. Applicants can use the profile to plan focused prosecution in transportation and mechanical systems.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAIG, SENIYA | 1 | — | — |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.2% |
| WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 1 | 20.0% | +31.3% |
| GILLS, KURTIS | 1 | 58.0% | +28.8% |
| FU, HAO | 1 | 49.9% | +24.8% |
| MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 1 | 24.8% | +25.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807292 | Couple-Based Digital Reproductive Health Platform System and Method | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 24d overdue |
| 18637819 | Employment and/or Income Verification System and Methods | FU, HAO | 50d |
| 17494570 | Parcel Margin Optimization (PMO) System for and Methods of Generating and Optimizing Discounted Parcel Shipping Prices | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 53d |
| 18989157 | Live Fire Training System and Method Including a Modular Live Fire Burn Room for Training Firefighters | BAIG, SENIYA | — |
| 18924231 | Coated Carton and Method of Making Same | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18640227 | System for Optimizing Product Distribution to Retail Outlets | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807292 | Couple-Based Digital Reproductive Health Platform System and Method | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 24d overdue |
| 18637819 | Employment and/or Income Verification System and Methods | FU, HAO | 50d |
| 17494570 | Parcel Margin Optimization (PMO) System for and Methods of Generating and Optimizing Discounted Parcel Shipping Prices | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 53d |
| 18924231 | Coated Carton and Method of Making Same | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18640227 | System for Optimizing Product Distribution to Retail Outlets | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| D.R. Reynolds Company, Inc. | 1 |
| Inno-Pak | 1 |
| Vie Science, Inc. | 1 |
| Analogy Partners, LLC | 1 |
| Verificationprofessional, LLC | 1 |
| Transimpact, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989157 | Live Fire Training System and Method Including a Modular Live Fire Burn Room for Training Firefighters | D.R. Reynolds Company, Inc. | BAIG, SENIYA | 3715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18924231 | Coated Carton and Method of Making Same | Inno-Pak, LLC | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 3734 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18807292 | Couple-Based Digital Reproductive Health Platform System and Method | Vie Science, Inc. | WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 3683 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18640227 | System for Optimizing Product Distribution to Retail Outlets | Analogy Partners, LLC | GILLS, KURTIS | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18637819 | Employment and/or Income Verification System and Methods | Verificationprofessional, LLC | FU, HAO | 3695 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 50d | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 17494570 | Parcel Margin Optimization (PMO) System for and Methods of Generating and Optimizing Discounted Parcel Shipping Prices | Transimpact, LLC | MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Oct 05, 2021 |
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Start Free Trial92.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Ward And Smith, P.A. were allowed, across 958 applications in USPTO records.
2.27 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 6 art units.
