Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lowe'S Companies Inc. is currently managing 7 pending office actions in the Communications technology area. These cases are distributed among 7 distinct examiners and 6 distinct art units. This near-total dispersion indicates that almost every application is being reviewed by a different individual in a different technical division. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate 6 distinct art units' specific guidelines while managing 7 separate examiner interactions.
AZIZ, ADNAN is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. With 7 distinct examiners each handling 1 pending office action, the company's prosecution risk is not concentrated in any one individual. The variety of 6 distinct art units suggests a broad range of communications-related technologies are being patented. Practitioners should coordinate their responses to ensure that the 6 distinct art units receive consistent information. This variety across 7 pending office actions requires a flexible and well-documented prosecution approach to maintain claim consistency across the entire portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (29%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZIZ, ADNAN | 1 | 77.1% | +34.3% |
| CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 1 | 85.5% | +8.7% |
| PATEL, PINALBEN V | 1 | 89.1% | +9.7% |
| DOAN, HUAN V | 1 | 80.5% | +41.9% |
| MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | 1 | 29.4% | +34.2% |
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 1 | 35.2% | +22.5% |
| GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 1 | 50.9% | +37.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050420 | OPERATION-SPECIFIC DEVICE CONFIGURATION | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | — |
| 19029670 | VIRTUALIZING OBJECTS USING OBJECT MODELS AND OBJECT POSITION DATA | PATEL, PINALBEN V | — |
| 19025684 | BENEFIT DENIAL SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | DOAN, HUAN V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| 18898121 | CAPTURING VISUAL PROPERTIES | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | — |
| 17946946 | MIXED REALITY PRESENTATION BASED ON A VIRTUAL LOCATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL MODEL OF A PHYSICAL SPACE | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| 19247211 | TOOL-AGNOSTIC DEVICE | AZIZ, ADNAN | — |
| 19025684 | BENEFIT DENIAL SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | DOAN, HUAN V | — |
| 18898121 | CAPTURING VISUAL PROPERTIES | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | — |
| 17946946 | MIXED REALITY PRESENTATION BASED ON A VIRTUAL LOCATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL MODEL OF A PHYSICAL SPACE | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 2175 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 2499 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19247211 | TOOL-AGNOSTIC DEVICE | AZIZ, ADNAN | 2685 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19050420 | OPERATION-SPECIFIC DEVICE CONFIGURATION | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 2175 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19029670 | VIRTUALIZING OBJECTS USING OBJECT MODELS AND OBJECT POSITION DATA | PATEL, PINALBEN V | 2673 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19025684 | BENEFIT DENIAL SYSTEM FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | DOAN, HUAN V | 2499 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18898121 | CAPTURING VISUAL PROPERTIES | MUHEBBULLAH, SAJEDA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 3627 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
| 17946946 | MIXED REALITY PRESENTATION BASED ON A VIRTUAL LOCATION WITHIN A VIRTUAL MODEL OF A PHYSICAL SPACE | GIBSON-WYNN, KENNEDY ANNA | 3688 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialLowe'S Companies Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 7 examiners.
Adnan Aziz has the most, with 1 of Lowe'S Companies Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
