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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Local Bounti Operating Company LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, showing no overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's applications. For a practitioner, this means that the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks, each with its own set of examiner preferences and procedural requirements. The spread across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's filings are being vetted by different specialized groups within the USPTO.
HAYES, KRISTEN C is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are split evenly, each examiner handles exactly 1 pending office action for the company. This distribution suggests a decentralized prosecution environment where no single examiner or art unit holds a majority of the active cases. Practitioners should be prepared to tailor their strategies to the individual styles of both examiners, as the current data shows a lack of concentration in the personnel handling the company's intellectual property matters.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DENNIS, KEVIN M | 1 | 37.8% | +47.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECIALIZING LIGHT SPECTRA AND OPTIMIZING PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY TO ADJUST PLANT DIURNAL CYCLE | DENNIS, KEVIN M | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18484981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECIALIZING LIGHT SPECTRA AND OPTIMIZING PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY TO ADJUST PLANT DIURNAL CYCLE | DENNIS, KEVIN M | 3647 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialLocal Bounti Operating Company LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kevin M Dennis has the most, with 1 of Local Bounti Operating Company LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
