Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Allflex Europe has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is focused on this single pending matter, which allows for a concentrated legal effort. This structure minimizes the administrative complexity of managing multiple filings across different technical divisions of the patent office.
HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. The prosecution strategy is currently centered on the review of this specific examiner within the mechanical systems field. For the practitioner, success in this matter depends on a deep understanding of the historical tendencies and preferences of HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN. There are no other pending actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area to balance the risk of this single prosecution track.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 1 | 63.6% | +22.7% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077137 | FEMALE PART OF AN ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING ACCESSORY AND ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION METHOD | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19077137 | FEMALE PART OF AN ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING ACCESSORY AND ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION METHOD | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 3631 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAllflex Europe has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gary Chapman Hoge has the most, with 1 of Allflex Europe's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
