Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crane & Co., Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket includes 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units, indicating broad examiner distribution with limited unit overlap.
LEWIS, JUSTIN V is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Portfolio review should focus on consistent technical positions while preserving separate strategies for each examination assignment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 1 | 55.4% | +17.6% |
| GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 1 | 48.4% | +16.5% |
| ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | 1 | 73.2% | +5.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175489 | MACHINE-READABLE OPTICAL SECURITY DEVICE | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 61d |
| 19082143 | MICRO-OPTIC SECURITY DEVICE WITH ABSOLUTE REGISTRATION | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| 16775103 | PERFORMANCE ADHESIVE FOR SECURITY DOCUMENTS | ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175489 | MACHINE-READABLE OPTICAL SECURITY DEVICE | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 61d |
| 19082143 | MICRO-OPTIC SECURITY DEVICE WITH ABSOLUTE REGISTRATION | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 2 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19082143 | MICRO-OPTIC SECURITY DEVICE WITH ABSOLUTE REGISTRATION | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 3637 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 18175489 | MACHINE-READABLE OPTICAL SECURITY DEVICE | GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT | 3637 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 16775103 | PERFORMANCE ADHESIVE FOR SECURITY DOCUMENTS | ANTHONY, JOSEPH DAVID | 1764 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2020 |
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Start Free TrialCrane & Co., Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Justin V Lewis has the most, with 1 of Crane & Co., Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
