Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Carter-Hoffmann LLC is managing 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, ensuring a variety of perspectives during review. These examiners are located across 3 distinct art units, with HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE serving as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests a lack of examiner concentration, which may lead to varied prosecution experiences across the portfolio.
The 3 distinct art units involved indicate that while the portfolio is centered on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, it touches upon different technical niches. For a practitioner, this means that there is no single examiner whose historical data will dominate the outcome of the current docket. The presence of 4 distinct examiners requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different standards and practices of these various individuals.
With 4 pending office actions and 3 distinct art units, the company's innovations are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups within the USPTO. This breadth suggests that the mechanical systems focus covers several sub-specialties. The 4 distinct examiners ensure that the 4 pending office actions are each given an independent look, reducing the risk that a single examiner's bias could affect a large portion of the company's active applications.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 1 | 70.5% | +21.8% |
| ING, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.7% | +8.4% |
| ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 1 | 71.3% | +27.1% |
| GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 1 | 76.9% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869714 | HEATED DISPLAY CABINET | ING, MATTHEW W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18966810 | HEATED CABINET SYSTEM FOR COMBINING MULTIPLE CABINETS | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| 18633057 | DUAL FLOW HOLDING CONTAINER | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | — |
| 18353390 | CABINET FOR HOLDING FOOD PRODUCTS | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 2 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18966810 | HEATED CABINET SYSTEM FOR COMBINING MULTIPLE CABINETS | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18869714 | HEATED DISPLAY CABINET | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18633057 | DUAL FLOW HOLDING CONTAINER | ISKRA, JOSEPH W | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18353390 | CABINET FOR HOLDING FOOD PRODUCTS | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCarter-Hoffmann LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
James Orville Hansen has the most, with 1 of Carter-Hoffmann LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
