Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
11 pending office actions • 9 clients • 9 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
WARD AND SMITH, P.A. focuses on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, with 954 career applications. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate pct of 91.96. This rate demonstrates its results in securing patent grants in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Practitioners can use the 954 career applications to evaluate the firm's historical outcomes. These metrics offer a basis for setting expectations for future filings in this technical field. The 91.96 resolved allowance rate pct provides a measure of success for applications managed by the firm.
The firm has 10 pending office actions. Its avg office actions per allowance is 2.27. This 2.27 avg office actions per allowance reflects the number of examiner interactions typically required to reach an allowance. With 10 pending office actions, the firm continues to manage its active cases. The 2.27 avg office actions per allowance helps practitioners estimate the resources needed for the examination phase. The 91.96 resolved allowance rate pct and the 10 pending office actions provide a view of the firm's performance.
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 only | 1 (9%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (27%) |
| §103 only | 3 (27%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (27%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 3 | 95.3% | +5.3% |
| CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 1 | 46.0% | +38.4% |
| BAIG, SENIYA | 1 | — | — |
| DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 68.9% | +14.1% |
| WINSTON III, EDWARD B | 1 | 19.8% | +31.0% |
| TRIGGS, ANDREW J | 1 | 66.7% | +27.8% |
| GILLS, KURTIS | 1 | 57.9% | +29.2% |
| FU, HAO | 1 | 50.1% | +24.8% |
| MORONEY, MICHAEL CORBETT | 1 | 24.8% | +25.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35524897 | Tea packaging box | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 47d |
| 35524887 | Tea packaging box | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | — |
| 35524902 | Tea packaging box | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 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 |
| 19426958 | Lumbosacral Orthosis (LSO) and Method of Using Same | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | — |
| 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 7 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 |
| 19426958 | Lumbosacral Orthosis (LSO) and Method of Using Same | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | — |
| 18924231 | Coated Carton and Method of Making Same | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| 18766795 | Pedestal Paver Lock Down Systems and Methods | TRIGGS, ANDREW J | — |
| 18640227 | System for Optimizing Product Distribution to Retail Outlets | GILLS, KURTIS | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Bettys & Taylors Group Ltd. | 3 |
| Motif Medical, LLC | 1 |
| D.R. Reynolds Company, Inc. | 1 |
| Inno-Pak | 1 |
| Vie Science, Inc. | 1 |
| Piedmont Innovative Products, LLC | 1 |
| Analogy Partners, LLC | 1 |
| Verificationprofessional, LLC | 1 |
| Transimpact, LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2923 | 3 |
| 3786 | 1 |
| 3683 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19426958 | Lumbosacral Orthosis (LSO) and Method of Using Same | Motif Medical, LLC | CARREIRO, CAITLIN ANN | 3786 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2025 |
| 35524887 | Tea packaging box | Bettys & Taylors Group Ltd. | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 2923 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 35524902 | Tea packaging box | Bettys & Taylors Group Ltd. | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 2923 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 35524897 | Tea packaging box | Bettys & Taylors Group Ltd. | MORRIS, KATHERINE ELIZABETH | 2923 | §103 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18989157 | Live Fire Training System and Method Including a Modular Live Fire Burn Room for Training Firefighters | D.R. Reynolds Company, Inc. | BAIG, SENIYA | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 | |
| 18924231 | Coated Carton and Method of Making Same | Inno-Pak, LLC | DEMEREE, CHRISTOPHER R | §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 |
| 18766795 | Pedestal Paver Lock Down Systems and Methods | Piedmont Innovative Products, LLC | TRIGGS, ANDREW J | 3635 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 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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