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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is under the review of a different person. Both examiners are working within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical scope for the company's current applications. The concentration of both matters in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company can expect a uniform application of technical standards across its 2 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SINGH, KAVEL, who is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is balanced. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit may simplify the prosecution strategy, as the company only needs to navigate the specific guidelines of a single technical group while dealing with 2 different examiners. This structure allows for a focused prosecution approach within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area, even though the company must address the individual perspectives of 2 different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 1 | 86.8% | +8.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18322454 | CONVEYING METHOD AND CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR GOODS | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18322454 | CONVEYING METHOD AND CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR GOODS | CUMBESS, YOLANDA RENEE | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Yolanda Renee Cumbess has the most, with 1 of Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
