Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kinze Manufacturing Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket includes 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, so each recorded matter is associated with a separate examiner and technical group.
BUCK, MATTHEW R is the listed busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. The even distribution favors individualized claim and prior-art analysis for each application, supported by separate tracking of the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCK, MATTHEW R | 1 | 83.3% | +14.4% |
| MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 1 | 73.6% | +16.0% |
| HO, ANNA THI | 1 | 39.3% | +34.6% |
| GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M | 1 | 76.6% | +11.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989319 | AGRICULTURAL PLANTING IMPLEMENT WITH SEED TO GROUND SYSTEM | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 17650762 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FOR AG BASED OPERATIONS | GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18052672 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR LIQUID FERTILIZER DRAWBACK | HO, ANNA THI | 28d |
| 18989319 | AGRICULTURAL PLANTING IMPLEMENT WITH SEED TO GROUND SYSTEM | BUCK, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18436763 | ALL ELECTRICAL PLANTER AND ELECTRICAL PLANTER COMPONENTS | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | — |
| 17650762 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FOR AG BASED OPERATIONS | GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989319 | AGRICULTURAL PLANTING IMPLEMENT WITH SEED TO GROUND SYSTEM | BUCK, MATTHEW R | 3672 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18436763 | ALL ELECTRICAL PLANTER AND ELECTRICAL PLANTER COMPONENTS | MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18052672 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR LIQUID FERTILIZER DRAWBACK | HO, ANNA THI | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17650762 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FOR AG BASED OPERATIONS | GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKinze Manufacturing Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Matthew R Buck has the most, with 1 of Kinze 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.
