Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Loft Labs LLC has 3 pending office actions in Networking & Security. The matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that the portfolio is divided across separate examination channels.
RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR is the busiest examiner. Counsel should maintain matter-specific response plans and monitor whether claim terminology or security concepts are being treated differently across the art-unit assignments.
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 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR | 1 | 90.8% | +8.4% |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.7% | +7.6% |
| KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1 | 65.2% | +20.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918246 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIOMETRIC ACCESS CONTROL | RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18918529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AN ORAL NICOTINE DISPENSING SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 70d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738829 | VAPORIZER CARTRIDGE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2498 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 1747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18918246 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIOMETRIC ACCESS CONTROL | RAHMAN, MAHFUZUR | 2498 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18918529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AN ORAL NICOTINE DISPENSING SYSTEM | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18738829 | VAPORIZER CARTRIDGE | KESSIE, JENNIFER A | 1747 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialLoft Labs LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Mahfuzur Rahman has the most, with 1 of Loft Labs LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Networking & Security (USPTO Tech Center 2400), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
