Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
12 pending office actions • 10 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. has 14 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters span 12 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units, indicating substantial distribution across the examining corps. Counsel will need portfolio-level docket controls alongside application-specific technical review.
CHEN, SHELLEY is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That assignment is the main examiner concentration in the portfolio, while the remaining matters require coordination across multiple other examiner and art-unit channels.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 7 (58%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, SHELLEY | 3 | 66.2% | +20.4% |
| DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 1 | 25.0% | +0.0% |
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 1 | 75.0% | +32.0% |
| CHEN, JOSE V | 1 | 78.1% | +15.1% |
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 59.3% | +57.6% |
| TORRES, ALICIA M | 1 | 73.7% | +17.3% |
| PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 1 | 57.4% | +51.6% |
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 69.0% | +22.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18533470 | HVAC DUCTING FOR WORK MACHINE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 34d |
| 18910132 | ROLLOVER MONITORING SYSTEM | DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON | — |
| 18781438 | HIGH-CAPACITY BALER WITH COMMON NEEDLE FRAME | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | — |
| 18647230 | REMOVABLE SEED DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| 18437880 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | — |
| 18489643 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516313 | VISION SYSTEM FOR METERING DEVICE | TORRES, ALICIA M | 43d overdue |
| 18489618 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | 38d overdue |
| 18484056 | WORK MACHINE SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING ATTACHMENT POSITION | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 27d |
| 18533654 | DISPLAY FOR A WORK MACHINE | CHEN, JOSE V | 33d |
| 18533470 | HVAC DUCTING FOR WORK MACHINE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 34d |
| 18647230 | REMOVABLE SEED DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| 18437880 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | — |
| 18489519 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 3 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18910132 | ROLLOVER MONITORING SYSTEM | DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18781438 | HIGH-CAPACITY BALER WITH COMMON NEEDLE FRAME | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 3725 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18647230 | REMOVABLE SEED DISTRIBUTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18437880 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18533654 | DISPLAY FOR A WORK MACHINE | CHEN, JOSE V | 3637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18533470 | HVAC DUCTING FOR WORK MACHINE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18516313 | VISION SYSTEM FOR METERING DEVICE | TORRES, ALICIA M | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
| 18489618 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18489519 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18489643 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
| 18484056 | WORK MACHINE SYSTEM FOR MAINTAINING ATTACHMENT POSITION | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18359666 | WORK MACHINE WITH MULTIPLE HYDRAULIC TANKS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialGreat Plains Manufacturing Inc. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 10 art units and 10 examiners.
Shelley Chen has the most, with 3 of Great Plains Manufacturing Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
