Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ariens Company has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This structure indicates that each pending matter is being evaluated independently by different personnel. The distribution across multiple units suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation filings cover a variety of distinct technical subfields.
BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. Given the total of 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split, with no examiner handling more than one case. The presence of 3 distinct art units implies that the company's innovations are categorized into several different specialized groups at the patent office. This requires the legal team to manage three separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. Each 1 distinct art unit may have its own specific interpretation of mechanical standards, necessitating a tailored approach for each of the 3 distinct examiners involved.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 1 | 67.0% | +14.3% |
| ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 1 | 76.0% | +12.1% |
| HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 1 | 49.3% | +44.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18718381 | INTUITIVE ELECTRIC STEERING | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | — |
| 18551971 | Battery Balancing | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18438151 | ADJUSTABLE CAB FOR A STAND-ON SKID STEER VEHICLE | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 5d |
| 18718381 | INTUITIVE ELECTRIC STEERING | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | — |
| 18551971 | Battery Balancing | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18718381 | INTUITIVE ELECTRIC STEERING | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18438151 | ADJUSTABLE CAB FOR A STAND-ON SKID STEER VEHICLE | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 3618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18551971 | Battery Balancing | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 2859 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAriens Company has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Anne Marie M Boehler has the most, with 1 of Ariens Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
