Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jls Automation has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical diversity. Each of the 4 pending office actions is assigned to a different person among the several examiners involved. This distribution means that no two actions are being reviewed by the same individual, even within the 3 distinct art units.
CAMPBELL, KEITH is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Since the cases are handled by 4 distinct examiners, there is no concentration of workload with any single individual. Practitioners will need to navigate the specific requirements of the different units to resolve the active matters. The lack of examiner overlap suggests that the prosecution of each action will be an independent process. Strategy should be customized for each reviewer to ensure the best results across the 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner and the other cases.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, KEITH | 1 | 89.7% | +0.9% |
| VU, STEPHEN A | 1 | 82.1% | +14.8% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.4% | +57.1% |
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773153 | Automated Bag Gripping Device | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16720539 | Method and System For Packaging A Container | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3d overdue |
| 19042099 | DRAFT HANDLER SYSTEM | CAMPBELL, KEITH | — |
| 18410575 | Adaptive Container Loading Assembly | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16720539 | Method and System For Packaging A Container | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3d overdue |
| 18773153 | Automated Bag Gripping Device | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
| 18410575 | Adaptive Container Loading Assembly | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042099 | DRAFT HANDLER SYSTEM | CAMPBELL, KEITH | 3651 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18773153 | Automated Bag Gripping Device | VU, STEPHEN A | 3654 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18410575 | Adaptive Container Loading Assembly | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 16720539 | Method and System For Packaging A Container | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
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Start Free TrialJls Automation has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Keith Campbell has the most, with 1 of Jls Automation's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
