Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 6 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ag Leader Technology currently has 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 6 distinct art units, showing that the company's innovations are being reviewed by several different specialized groups at the USPTO. The prosecution involves 8 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is being handled by a different individual.
The busiest examiner, KHATIB, RAMI, is responsible for only 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the total of 8 distinct examiners for 8 actions. This lack of examiner concentration means that the company cannot rely on a single examiner's history to influence multiple cases. Instead, each of the 8 pending office actions must be managed as an independent interaction with a unique examiner in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
With 6 distinct art units involved, the company's 8 pending actions are subject to the specific procedural trends of different divisions within the USPTO. The fact that KHATIB, RAMI and the other examiners each hold only 1 action highlights a decentralized prosecution environment. This requires the applicant to tailor their strategy to 8 different examiner perspectives to resolve the 8 pending office actions.
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 | 3 (38%) |
| §103 only | 2 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHATIB, RAMI | 1 | 77.1% | +13.9% |
| SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 1 | 89.7% | +7.8% |
| TAYLOR JR, ANTHONY D | 1 | 74.3% | +83.4% |
| KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 1 | 65.3% | +18.0% |
| CHENNAULT, AUSTIN ROBERT | 1 | 54.5% | +71.4% |
| ANWARI, MACEEH | 1 | 81.1% | +5.8% |
| MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 1 | 74.6% | +11.3% |
| ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 1 | 44.6% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17742373 | Calibration Adjustment For Automatic Steering Systems | ANWARI, MACEEH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18217216 | COMBINE UNLOADING ON-THE-GO WITH BIN LEVEL SHARING AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | CHENNAULT, AUSTIN ROBERT | 118d overdue |
| 16921828 | Apparatus, Systems And Methods For Automatic Steering Guidance And Visualization Of Guidance Paths | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 73d overdue |
| 19219718 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AGRICULTURAL NAVIGATION AND POSITIONING | KHATIB, RAMI | — |
| 18974482 | HEADER HEIGHT CONTROL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | — |
| 18662800 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING YIELD MAPS | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18217216 | COMBINE UNLOADING ON-THE-GO WITH BIN LEVEL SHARING AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | CHENNAULT, AUSTIN ROBERT | 118d overdue |
| 18665305 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AGRICULTURAL GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION | TAYLOR JR, ANTHONY D | 110d overdue |
| 16921828 | Apparatus, Systems And Methods For Automatic Steering Guidance And Visualization Of Guidance Paths | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 73d overdue |
| 17556506 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SEED DELIVERY CONTROL | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 47d |
| 19219718 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AGRICULTURAL NAVIGATION AND POSITIONING | KHATIB, RAMI | — |
| 18662800 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING YIELD MAPS | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219718 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AGRICULTURAL NAVIGATION AND POSITIONING | KHATIB, RAMI | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18974482 | HEADER HEIGHT CONTROL DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18665305 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR AGRICULTURAL GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION | TAYLOR JR, ANTHONY D | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 110d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
| 18662800 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING YIELD MAPS | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3665 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18217216 | COMBINE UNLOADING ON-THE-GO WITH BIN LEVEL SHARING AND ASSOCIATED DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | CHENNAULT, AUSTIN ROBERT | 3667 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 118d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 17742373 | Calibration Adjustment For Automatic Steering Systems | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
| 17556506 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR SEED DELIVERY CONTROL | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 3671 | §112 | Final Rejection | 47d | Pending | Dec 20, 2021 |
| 16921828 | Apparatus, Systems And Methods For Automatic Steering Guidance And Visualization Of Guidance Paths | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 3669 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Jul 06, 2020 |
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