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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flexible Steel Lacing Company has 1 pending office action in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matter is assigned to 1 examiner in 1 art unit, creating a focused prosecution setting.
RUSHIN, LESTER III is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can direct attention to the specific claim issues, cited art, and specification support presented in that action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHIN, LESTER III | 1 | 87.9% | +8.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076689 | FASTENER ASSEMBLY FOR CABLE CONVEYOR BELT | RUSHIN, LESTER III | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076689 | FASTENER ASSEMBLY FOR CABLE CONVEYOR BELT | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFlexible Steel Lacing Company has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Lester III Rushin has the most, with 1 of Flexible Steel Lacing Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
