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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cambro Manufacturing Company holds a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total volume of the company's active engagement with the patent office at this time. Because the portfolio is focused on transportation and mechanical systems, the legal strategy must account for the specific examination standards of these sectors.
The current workload is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution indicates that the company's pending intellectual property is being evaluated by 1 segment of the patent office. For a practitioner, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action depends on the feedback from 1 technical division. There is no variation of examiner perspectives across the current pending filings.
AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending actions is also 1, AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL manages the entirety of the company's active prosecution. This level of concentration requires a focused approach to communication with this specific examiner to resolve the outstanding action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | 1 | 59.3% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175256 | Adjustable Hinge for a Delivery Cart and Method for Constructing the Same | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175256 | Adjustable Hinge for a Delivery Cart and Method for Constructing the Same | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18175256 | Adjustable Hinge for a Delivery Cart and Method for Constructing the Same | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | 3637 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCambro Manufacturing Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Timothy Michael Ayres has the most, with 1 of Cambro Manufacturing Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
