Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
15 pending office actions • 9 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. is managing a portfolio with 15 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is spread across 12 distinct examiners and 9 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of patent applications. Such a distribution across 9 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations span several different technical sub-sectors within their primary technology area, requiring a versatile prosecution strategy to handle the varying standards of different examination groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is CHEN, SHELLEY, who is responsible for 3 busiest examiner pending actions. While this examiner handles the largest individual share of the workload, the 15 pending office actions are distributed widely enough that no individual examiner manages more than a small fraction of the total portfolio. With 12 distinct examiners involved, the company faces a diverse set of examination styles, which may lead to varying timelines and outcomes across their 15 pending office actions. This level of dispersion across examiners and art units typically requires coordination to ensure consistent claim language across the portfolio.
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.
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.
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 | 10 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (20%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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% |
| KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 2 | 75.0% | +32.0% |
| TRUONG, THONG P | 1 | 82.3% | +15.1% |
| DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 1 | 33.3% | +0.0% |
| LUSK, AUDREY L | 1 | 68.7% | +24.8% |
| DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | 1 | 79.1% | +11.2% |
| LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 1 | 57.1% | +56.9% |
| CHEN, JOSE V | 1 | 78.0% | +15.1% |
| KOPPIKAR, VIVEK D | 1 | 31.0% | +46.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971397 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR COMPACT UTILITY LOADER | TRUONG, THONG P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 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 | — |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18489618 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | 38d overdue |
| 18332885 | COMPACT UTILITY LOADER | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 32d overdue |
| 18533356 | UNDERCARRIAGE SUSPENSION FOR A WORK MACHINE | KOPPIKAR, VIVEK D | 19d overdue |
| 18533654 | DISPLAY FOR A WORK MACHINE | CHEN, JOSE V | 33d |
| 18533470 | HVAC DUCTING FOR WORK MACHINE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 34d |
| 18971397 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR COMPACT UTILITY LOADER | TRUONG, THONG P | — |
| 18437880 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | — |
| 18437858 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH AUTOMATIC LATCHING TONGUE | LUSK, AUDREY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 3 |
| 3611 | 2 |
| 3671 | 2 |
| 3612 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 18781438 | HIGH-CAPACITY BALER WITH COMMON NEEDLE FRAME | DICKSTEIN, WILLIAM DOUGLAS | 3725 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
| 18437880 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH SEQUENTIAL HYDRAULIC CIRCUIT | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18437858 | ENDWISE TRANSPORTABLE IMPLEMENT WITH AUTOMATIC LATCHING TONGUE | LUSK, AUDREY L | 3671 | §103 | 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 |
| 18533470 | HVAC DUCTING FOR WORK MACHINE | LAUGHLIN, ELIZABETH ANN | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | 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 | KOPPIKAR, VIVEK D | 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 |
| 18489643 | AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM | CHEN, SHELLEY | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 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 |
| 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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