Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC has 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across a corresponding number of art units, showing no shared administrative baselines. The busiest examiner, KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
This distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners requires the company to manage these examination processes independently. Without personnel or art unit overlap, each case must be handled with a unique strategy tailored to the specific examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | 1 | 74.8% | +17.8% |
| ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | 1 | 78.1% | +27.7% |
| ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 1 | 58.8% | +33.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210868 | IMPLEMENT-ON-GROUND DETECTION USING VIBRATION SIGNALS | KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210868 | IMPLEMENT-ON-GROUND DETECTION USING VIBRATION SIGNALS | KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | — |
| 18999498 | GRADE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARTHMOVING IMPLEMENTS | ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | — |
| 18376683 | EXCAVATOR DUMP AUTOMATION | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210868 | IMPLEMENT-ON-GROUND DETECTION USING VIBRATION SIGNALS | KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE | 3666 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18999498 | GRADE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARTHMOVING IMPLEMENTS | ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD | 3658 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18376683 | EXCAVATOR DUMP AUTOMATION | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCaterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Connor Lee Knight has the most, with 1 of Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
