Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Laitram LLC has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that examiner assignments are more dispersed than the art-unit assignments.
SINGH, KAVEL is the busiest listed examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use a shared portfolio framework while accounting for separate examiner positions within the two art-unit settings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (40%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEUBLE, MARK A | 1 | 88.2% | +8.2% |
| BIDWELL, JAMES R | 1 | 89.7% | +8.3% |
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| RUSHIN, LESTER III | 1 | 87.9% | +8.0% |
| HULKA, JAMES R | 1 | 76.3% | +11.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19149186 | RECESSED NOSEBAR FOR A CONVEYOR | DEUBLE, MARK A | — |
| 19145371 | SNAP LOCK CONVEYOR COMPONENT | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19254727 | MODULAR CONVEYOR BELT WITH MOVEABLE HINGE ROD RETAINER | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 19093963 | POSITIVE-DRIVE SPIRAL CONVEYOR BELT | RUSHIN, LESTER III | — |
| 18571921 | SYSTEM FOR TRACKING CONVEYED OBJECTS | HULKA, JAMES R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19254727 | MODULAR CONVEYOR BELT WITH MOVEABLE HINGE ROD RETAINER | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 18571921 | SYSTEM FOR TRACKING CONVEYED OBJECTS | HULKA, JAMES R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 4 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19149186 | RECESSED NOSEBAR FOR A CONVEYOR | DEUBLE, MARK A | 3651 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19145371 | SNAP LOCK CONVEYOR COMPONENT | BIDWELL, JAMES R | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19254727 | MODULAR CONVEYOR BELT WITH MOVEABLE HINGE ROD RETAINER | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19093963 | POSITIVE-DRIVE SPIRAL CONVEYOR BELT | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18571921 | SYSTEM FOR TRACKING CONVEYED OBJECTS | HULKA, JAMES R | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLaitram LLC has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Mark A Deuble has the most, with 1 of Laitram LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
