Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dematic Corp. has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 4 distinct examiners, meaning each case has a unique individual assigned to it. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across 4 distinct art units, showing no concentration in any single technical group. The 4 pending office actions represent four independent technical inquiries within the mechanical systems field.
HESS, DOUGLAS A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This reflects the broader pattern where the 4 pending office actions are each handled by a different examiner. The 4 distinct art units suggest that the company's logistics and transportation technologies are diverse enough to fall into multiple classifications. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner or art unit has a dominant influence over the portfolio.
For practitioners, this profile indicates a need for four separate prosecution strategies. With 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units for only 4 pending office actions, there is no overlap to exploit. Each action must be managed as an independent interaction with a different part of the patent office. Strategy should be tailored to the individual tendencies of HESS, DOUGLAS A and the other three distinct examiners involved across these four specialized units.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESS, DOUGLAS A | 1 | 88.9% | +10.6% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.7% | +7.6% |
| KOCH, GEORGE R | 1 | 72.8% | +17.0% |
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108249 | AUTOMATIC SELF ALIGNING AND SELF SUSTAINING BELT TRACKING SYSTEM FOR BELTED CONVEYORS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18480610 | LABEL PRINTER APPLICATOR FOR A CONVEYOR SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17983095 | RFID ENABLED WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 29d |
| 19108249 | AUTOMATIC SELF ALIGNING AND SELF SUSTAINING BELT TRACKING SYSTEM FOR BELTED CONVEYORS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
| 18480610 | LABEL PRINTER APPLICATOR FOR A CONVEYOR SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 1745 | 1 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108249 | AUTOMATIC SELF ALIGNING AND SELF SUSTAINING BELT TRACKING SYSTEM FOR BELTED CONVEYORS | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18999663 | ROBOTIC AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING ARTICLES | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18480610 | LABEL PRINTER APPLICATOR FOR A CONVEYOR SYSTEM | KOCH, GEORGE R | 1745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 17983095 | RFID ENABLED WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialDematic Corp. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Douglas A Hess has the most, with 1 of Dematic Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
