Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD. has 10 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio spans 9 examiners and 6 art units, indicating both examiner diversity and repeated activity within some technical groups.
TRAN, JULIA C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That assignment provides a point for coordination, but the remaining matters are distributed across other examiners and art units.
Counsel can look for reusable claim charts, technical explanations, and amendment positions across related applications while preserving examiner-specific analysis. The difference between examiner and art-unit coverage also supports reviewing whether related matters are receiving consistent treatment within shared technical groups.
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 (10%) |
| §103 only | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, JULIA C | 2 | 62.4% | +32.0% |
| DYER, ANDREW R | 1 | 59.6% | +39.3% |
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 1 | 84.3% | +5.6% |
| BROWN, CLAUDE J | 1 | 79.8% | +17.3% |
| HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 1 | 83.8% | +8.1% |
| HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 1 | 76.9% | +34.5% |
| MITCHELL, JOEL F | 1 | 61.1% | +17.0% |
| WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 1 | 81.9% | +23.2% |
| AFRIN, NAZIA | 1 | 34.4% | +19.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579536 | PLATFORM HEADER WITH BELT FEEDER ASSEMBLY | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 15d |
| 19055290 | FORMING SHIELD FOR A HARVESTING IMPLEMENT | HARCOURT, BRAD | — |
| 18992528 | DRAPER TRACK | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19092768 | PRECISION CULTIVATOR WITH VISION GUIDANCE | DYER, ANDREW R | — |
| 18985430 | SKID SHOE POSITION CONTROL LOGIC | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | — |
| 18873645 | CONFIGURATION OF A ROW CROP CULTIVATOR ROW UNIT | TRAN, JULIA C | — |
| 18943139 | AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A CROP HARVESTING HEADER | TRAN, JULIA C | — |
| 18807797 | ZONE GROUND FORCE SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT | MITCHELL, JOEL F | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579536 | PLATFORM HEADER WITH BELT FEEDER ASSEMBLY | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 15d |
| 18382109 | GRAIN TRUCK DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION | AFRIN, NAZIA | 27d |
| 19092768 | PRECISION CULTIVATOR WITH VISION GUIDANCE | DYER, ANDREW R | — |
| 19021684 | FLEX LIMIT CONTROL LOGIC | BROWN, CLAUDE J | — |
| 18985430 | SKID SHOE POSITION CONTROL LOGIC | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | — |
| 18873645 | CONFIGURATION OF A ROW CROP CULTIVATOR ROW UNIT | TRAN, JULIA C | — |
| 18943139 | AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A CROP HARVESTING HEADER | TRAN, JULIA C | — |
| 18807797 | ZONE GROUND FORCE SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT | MITCHELL, JOEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 5 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092768 | PRECISION CULTIVATOR WITH VISION GUIDANCE | DYER, ANDREW R | 3662 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19055290 | FORMING SHIELD FOR A HARVESTING IMPLEMENT | HARCOURT, BRAD | 3674 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19021684 | FLEX LIMIT CONTROL LOGIC | BROWN, CLAUDE J | 3671 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18992528 | DRAPER TRACK | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 3672 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18985430 | SKID SHOE POSITION CONTROL LOGIC | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 3664 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18873645 | CONFIGURATION OF A ROW CROP CULTIVATOR ROW UNIT | TRAN, JULIA C | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18943139 | AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF A CROP HARVESTING HEADER | TRAN, JULIA C | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18807797 | ZONE GROUND FORCE SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT | MITCHELL, JOEL F | 3671 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18579536 | PLATFORM HEADER WITH BELT FEEDER ASSEMBLY | WEBB, SUNNY DANIELLE | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 18382109 | GRAIN TRUCK DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION | AFRIN, NAZIA | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialMACDON INDUSTRIES LTD. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 6 art units and 9 examiners.
Julia C Tran has the most, with 2 of MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
