Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Les Equipements Lapierre Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates that the company's current activity at the USPTO is limited to 1 specific mechanical or transportation-related application. The 1 pending office action represents the entire active prosecution pipeline for the company. This concentrated effort allows for a highly specific legal strategy directed at a single technical innovation within the mechanical systems field.
The busiest examiner for the company is RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER, who handles 1 pending office action. This is the only pending action in the company's portfolio. The involvement of just 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the company's immediate prosecution results are tied to this single pending matter. Practitioners should closely monitor the feedback from RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER, as this 1 pending office action is the sole focus of the company's current patenting efforts. Success in this 1 distinct art unit is critical for the company's immediate intellectual property goals.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186278 | CONNECTING ASSEMBLY FOR CONNECTING HOSE SEGMENTS TOGETHER, AND MAPLE TREE SAP HARVESTING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SAME | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186278 | CONNECTING ASSEMBLY FOR CONNECTING HOSE SEGMENTS TOGETHER, AND MAPLE TREE SAP HARVESTING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SAME | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialLes Equipements Lapierre Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alexander Tyler Rufrano has the most, with 1 of Les Equipements Lapierre Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
