Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Igus GmbH has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, showing that the portfolio spans several examination assignments while retaining a similar level of examiner and art-unit dispersion.
NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. The remaining matters are distributed among other examiners, so prosecution planning should combine examiner-specific preparation for that assignment with separate analysis of the other art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 2 | 78.8% | +16.8% |
| MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 1 | 59.8% | +34.8% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.6% | +7.7% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19149782 | LINE GUIDING DEVICE COMPRISING SINGLE-PART LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS, AND GUIDE PIECE THEREFOR | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — |
| 18035485 | Dispensing Device for a Flexible Line Arrangement and Line Guide Apparatus with Conveying Unit | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18551233 | APPARATUS FOR WINDING ON AN OBJECT EXTENDING IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION LIKE A LINE OR A CABLE | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858734 | Linear Plain Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 16d |
| 18859031 | Axial and Radial Sliding Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 29d |
| 19149782 | LINE GUIDING DEVICE COMPRISING SINGLE-PART LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS, AND GUIDE PIECE THEREFOR | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — |
| 18035485 | Dispensing Device for a Flexible Line Arrangement and Line Guide Apparatus with Conveying Unit | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 2 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19149782 | LINE GUIDING DEVICE COMPRISING SINGLE-PART LONGITUDINAL PORTIONS, AND GUIDE PIECE THEREFOR | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 3631 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2025 |
| 18859031 | Axial and Radial Sliding Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18858734 | Linear Plain Bearing | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18035485 | Dispensing Device for a Flexible Line Arrangement and Line Guide Apparatus with Conveying Unit | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 18551233 | APPARATUS FOR WINDING ON AN OBJECT EXTENDING IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION LIKE A LINE OR A CABLE | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialIgus GmbH has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Aimee Tran Nguyen has the most, with 2 of Igus GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
