Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lowe'S Companies Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The portfolio currently has 4 pending office actions, which indicates a stream of ongoing prosecution activity. This volume of 4 pending office actions suggests that the company is actively seeking to expand its intellectual property holdings in this specific technical field.
The prosecution of these actions is spread across 4 distinct examiners but only 2 distinct art units. This distribution is notable because it means that while each of the 4 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual, those individuals are clustered within just 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's patent applications are technically related enough to be grouped together, yet numerous enough to require 4 distinct examiners.
CHOUDHURY, ZAHID is the busiest examiner for Lowe'S Companies Inc., with 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and there are 4 total pending actions, the workload is distributed among the 4 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration with a single examiner means that the company's success is not tied to 1 person's review, but rather to the collective decisions of a group of examiners within the 2 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | 1 | 85.5% | +8.7% |
| PATEL, PINALBEN V | 1 | 89.2% | +9.5% |
| NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 1 | 56.5% | +37.2% |
| LUDWIG, PETER L | 1 | 35.1% | +22.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 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 | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934965 | DEVICE FOR SURFACE COVERING | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 26d |
| 18332240 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECORDING TRANSACTION AND PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION INFORMATION | LUDWIG, PETER L | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1788 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050420 | OPERATION-SPECIFIC DEVICE CONFIGURATION | CHOUDHURY, ZAHID | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 19029670 | VIRTUALIZING OBJECTS USING OBJECT MODELS AND OBJECT POSITION DATA | PATEL, PINALBEN V | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18934965 | DEVICE FOR SURFACE COVERING | NORDMEYER, PATRICIA L | 1788 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Nov 01, 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 |
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