Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Little Giant Ladder Systems LLC has 5 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 examiners and 3 art units, indicating distribution across several examination paths.
CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration supports coordinated review of the examiner’s claim treatment and cited art, while the remaining matters require separate tracking and response preparation.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3 | 57.4% | +40.2% |
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18324971 | MULTIFUNCTION BUTTON FOR LADDER ADJUSTMENT | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 75d |
| 18828597 | COMBINATION LADDERS, LADDER COMPONENTS AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 18780056 | FOOT FOR LADDERS, LADDERS INCORPORATING SAME AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18324971 | MULTIFUNCTION BUTTON FOR LADDER ADJUSTMENT | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 75d |
| 19025538 | COMBINATION LADDERS, LADDER COMPONENTS AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 18828597 | COMBINATION LADDERS, LADDER COMPONENTS AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| 18780056 | FOOT FOR LADDERS, LADDERS INCORPORATING SAME AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 3 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19025538 | COMBINATION LADDERS, LADDER COMPONENTS AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3634 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18828597 | COMBINATION LADDERS, LADDER COMPONENTS AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18780056 | FOOT FOR LADDERS, LADDERS INCORPORATING SAME AND RELATED METHODS | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18324971 | MULTIFUNCTION BUTTON FOR LADDER ADJUSTMENT | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | May 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLittle Giant Ladder Systems LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Colleen Margaret Chavchavadze has the most, with 3 of Little Giant Ladder Systems LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
