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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
D & D Group Pty Ltd. manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 pending office action indicates a highly focused or low-volume prosecution phase. This single pending action represents the total active workload for the company at this time.
The busiest examiner for the company is LUGO, CARLOS, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is the only one listed for the company's 1 pending office action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit shows that the company's current mechanical or transportation innovations are being reviewed within a single specialized division of the patent office. This concentration allows for a very direct line of communication between the applicant and the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410331 | LATCHES FOR MOVABLE BARRIERS OR THE LIKE | LUGO, CARLOS | 138d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18410331 | LATCHES FOR MOVABLE BARRIERS OR THE LIKE | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialD & D Group Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Carlos Lugo has the most, with 1 of D & D Group Pty Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
