Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kundel Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is currently assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the matters are being reviewed by different individuals. This requires the company to manage separate prosecution tracks for each case. Such a distribution can provide a more comprehensive view of how different examiners perceive the company's mechanical inventions.
JELANI A SMITH is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. The actions are also distributed across distinct art units. This means there is no concentration of the 2 pending office actions under a single examiner or department, requiring a versatile approach to resolution. Practitioners must be prepared to tailor their arguments to the specific preferences and departmental standards of each assigned examiner to advance the current filings.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JELANI A | 1 | 70.2% | +11.3% |
| SOTO, HENRIX | 1 | 70.8% | +29.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663190 | MOVEMENT ASSIST SYSTEM FOR CRANE OPERATIONS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | 66d overdue |
| 18934616 | SINGLE LOAD MANIPULATOR AND METHOD OF USE | SMITH, JELANI A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934616 | SINGLE LOAD MANIPULATOR AND METHOD OF USE | SMITH, JELANI A | 3662 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18663190 | MOVEMENT ASSIST SYSTEM FOR CRANE OPERATIONS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKundel Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jelani A Smith has the most, with 1 of Kundel Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
