Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grady F Smith & Co. Inc. D/B/A Scaffoldmart has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner. Furthermore, the entire pending portfolio is located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a high degree of concentration, as a single individual in a single administrative group is responsible for all of the company's current pending matters.
The busiest examiner is MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 2 pending actions, the company's prosecution is entirely centralized. This allows for a consistent approach to legal arguments and technical disclosures, as the same official will be reviewing both applications. However, it also means that the company's current success in this technology area is dependent on the specific interpretations and tendencies of this 1 examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 2 | 62.5% | +64.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099767 | Safety Latch for a Multifunction Scaffold | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 46d overdue |
| 18766207 | Locking Pin for Multifunction Scaffold | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099767 | Safety Latch for a Multifunction Scaffold | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 46d overdue |
| 18766207 | Locking Pin for Multifunction Scaffold | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18766207 | Locking Pin for Multifunction Scaffold | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18099767 | Safety Latch for a Multifunction Scaffold | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGrady F Smith & Co. Inc. D/B/A Scaffoldmart has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Shiref M Mekhaeil has the most, with 2 of Grady F Smith & Co. Inc. D/B/A Scaffoldmart's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
