Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG has 14 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket covers 10 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, combining broad examiner distribution with a smaller set of technical groupings.
BUCK, MATTHEW R is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. This concentration creates an opportunity for consistent examiner-specific preparation, while the remaining matters require coordination across the other examination assignments.
The art-unit distribution is narrower than the examiner distribution, suggesting that some technical groups include multiple examiner relationships. Counsel can use art units to identify common technical themes, then tailor amendments and arguments to the individual examiner handling each matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (13%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3 | 73.6% | +16.0% |
| LE, VU | 1 | 56.5% | +9.8% |
| ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | 1 | 78.1% | +27.7% |
| COY, NICOLE A | 1 | 78.2% | -2.3% |
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 1 | 82.1% | +15.4% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.7% | +17.3% |
| MITCHELL, JOEL F | 1 | 61.1% | +17.0% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| BOECKMANN, JASON J | 1 | 49.0% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851528 | Method for Distributing Spray onto an Agricultural Area, and Agricultural Spray Device | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19118422 | Coulter Holder for Agricultural Machines | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 19108963 | Method for Determining an Actual Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | LE, VU | — |
| 19108805 | Method for Determining a Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18851409 | SOWING UNIT FOR A PRECISION SEEDER | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18996638 | Flow Device for at Least Partially Guiding a Conveyed Material Flow, Distributor Head for an Agricultural Spreading Machine and Agricultural Spreading Machine | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18873626 | Method and System for Determining a Machine- and Spreading Material-Specific and Lane-Independent Maximum Working Width | ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | — |
| 18867925 | Distributing Unit for an Agricultural Distributor and Method for Operating a Distributing Unit | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18863719 | Row Unit for an Agricultural Sowing Machine and Method For Determining a Depositing Depth and/or Covering Height | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282312 | Method for Controlling an Agricultural Spreading Machine | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 25d overdue |
| 19118422 | Coulter Holder for Agricultural Machines | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 19108805 | Method for Determining a Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18851409 | SOWING UNIT FOR A PRECISION SEEDER | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 18996638 | Flow Device for at Least Partially Guiding a Conveyed Material Flow, Distributor Head for an Agricultural Spreading Machine and Agricultural Spreading Machine | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18873626 | Method and System for Determining a Machine- and Spreading Material-Specific and Lane-Independent Maximum Working Width | ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | — |
| 18867925 | Distributing Unit for an Agricultural Distributor and Method for Operating a Distributing Unit | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18863719 | Row Unit for an Agricultural Sowing Machine and Method For Determining a Depositing Depth and/or Covering Height | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 5 |
| 3671 | 5 |
| 3752 | 2 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19118422 | Coulter Holder for Agricultural Machines | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19108963 | Method for Determining an Actual Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | LE, VU | 2668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19108805 | Method for Determining a Distribution of Fertilizer Grains | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3671 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 18851409 | SOWING UNIT FOR A PRECISION SEEDER | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18996638 | Flow Device for at Least Partially Guiding a Conveyed Material Flow, Distributor Head for an Agricultural Spreading Machine and Agricultural Spreading Machine | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18873626 | Method and System for Determining a Machine- and Spreading Material-Specific and Lane-Independent Maximum Working Width | ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | 3658 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18867925 | Distributing Unit for an Agricultural Distributor and Method for Operating a Distributing Unit | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18863719 | Row Unit for an Agricultural Sowing Machine and Method For Determining a Depositing Depth and/or Covering Height | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18860729 | Method for Controlling the Lift Position on a Tractor-Mounted Agricultural Machine, Control System and Tractor-Mounted Machine | COY, NICOLE A | 3672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18851528 | Method for Distributing Spray onto an Agricultural Area, and Agricultural Spray Device | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18840129 | Row Unit for a Sowing Machine and Sowing Machine Having Row Units | TORRES, ALICIA M | 3671 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18727497 | Method for operating a towed agricultural work implement and towed agricultural work implement | MITCHELL, JOEL F | 3671 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18566346 | Agricultural Machine | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18282312 | Method for Controlling an Agricultural Spreading Machine | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18009166 | Soil-Working Device for Row Crops | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAmazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG has 15 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 11 examiners.
Matthew R Buck has the most, with 3 of Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
