Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Great Plains Manufacturing Inc.

15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

15
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (13%)
12
Medium (80%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (7%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (73%)
§102 only1 (7%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (13%)
No statute on record1 (7%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
7% of docket
13
Mechanical / Eng
87% of docket
1
Business / Other
7% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

150 h
Manual time on pending OAs
30 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
52 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHEN, SHELLEY 3 66.0% +20.2%
KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE 2 75.9% +30.4%
TRUONG, THONG P 1 82.4% +15.1%
DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 1 0.0% +0.0%
BUCK, MATTHEW R 1 83.2% +14.6%
LUSK, AUDREY L 1 69.1% +23.4%
DOUGLAS, STEVEN O 1 79.1% +11.3%
CHEN, JOSE V 1 78.0% +15.3%
STRICKLER, SCOTT LAWRENCE 1 78.1% +16.6%
TORRES, ALICIA M 1 73.6% +17.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18971397 CONTROL SYSTEM FOR COMPACT UTILITY LOADER TRUONG, THONG P
18885110 SEED DRILL CALIBRATION DEVICE AND METHOD BUCK, MATTHEW R

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18910132 ROLLOVER MONITORING SYSTEM DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON
18437880 ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE
18489643 AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM CHEN, SHELLEY

Interview Candidates (12)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18516313 VISION SYSTEM FOR METERING DEVICE TORRES, ALICIA M 43d overdue
18489618 AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM CHEN, SHELLEY 38d overdue
18332885 COMPACT UTILITY LOADER KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE 32d overdue
18533356 UNDERCARRIAGE SUSPENSION FOR A WORK MACHINE STRICKLER, SCOTT LAWRENCE 19d overdue
18533654 DISPLAY FOR A WORK MACHINE CHEN, JOSE V 33d
18971397 CONTROL SYSTEM FOR COMPACT UTILITY LOADER TRUONG, THONG P
18885110 SEED DRILL CALIBRATION DEVICE AND METHOD BUCK, MATTHEW R
18437858 ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH AUTOMATIC LATCHING TONGUE LUSK, AUDREY L

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3665 3
3671 2
3611 2
3612 2
3663 1
3672 1
3637 1
2853 1
3753 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18971397 CONTROL SYSTEM FOR COMPACT UTILITY LOADER TRUONG, THONG P §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18910132 ROLLOVER MONITORING SYSTEM DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 3663 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 09, 2024
18885110 SEED DRILL CALIBRATION DEVICE AND METHOD BUCK, MATTHEW R 3672 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18437858 ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH AUTOMATIC LATCHING TONGUE LUSK, AUDREY L 3671 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2024
18437880 ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE 3611 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2024
18533636 TILTING CAB DOOR FOR WORK MACHINE DOUGLAS, STEVEN O 3612 Other Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18533654 DISPLAY FOR A WORK MACHINE CHEN, JOSE V 3637 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 08, 2023
18533356 UNDERCARRIAGE SUSPENSION FOR A WORK MACHINE STRICKLER, SCOTT LAWRENCE 3612 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue 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
18489643 AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM CHEN, SHELLEY 3665 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2023
18489519 AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM CHEN, SHELLEY 3665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2023
18470771 SEED METER CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD NGUYEN, QUANG X.L. 2853 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Sep 20, 2023
18359666 WORK MACHINE WITH MULTIPLE HYDRAULIC TANKS PRICE, CRAIG JAMES 3753 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 26, 2023
18332885 COMPACT UTILITY LOADER KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE 3611 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jun 12, 2023

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