1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Challenger Group LLC currently manages a patent portfolio with 1 pending office action. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DINKEL, JOHN LOUIS, who is responsible for the review of the company's claims. The data indicates that 0 distinct art units are currently associated with the pending workload, suggesting a unique or yet-to-be-classified status for the filing.
As the busiest examiner, DINKEL, JOHN LOUIS is currently overseeing the 1 pending office action. This creates a highly concentrated prosecution environment where the outcome of the company's patent efforts depends on a single individual. For practitioners, this concentration requires a focused strategy to address the specific requirements of this examiner, as the entire pending portfolio is under their review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DINKEL, JOHN LOUIS | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083193 | Load Transport System | DINKEL, JOHN LOUIS | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083193 | Load Transport System | DINKEL, JOHN LOUIS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialChallenger Group LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
John Louis Dinkel has the most, with 1 of Challenger Group LLC's pending office actions.
