Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maersk A/S has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating that the workload is distributed rather than concentrated. Counsel should expect to manage separate examination contexts and avoid assuming that a successful argument in one matter will transfer unchanged to another.
ZEROUAL, OMAR is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. That limited concentration makes examiner-specific coordination less central than maintaining clear matter-level records. A shared portfolio review can still identify recurring technical positions, but each response should remain tailored to its assigned art unit.
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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZEROUAL, OMAR | 1 | 33.6% | +39.6% |
| MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 1 | 48.5% | +50.2% |
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.2% | +26.8% |
| BECK, KAREN | 1 | 82.6% | +10.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18736400 | STRUCTURE FOR USE IN LASHING A SHIPPING CONTAINER TO A SUPPORT | BECK, KAREN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19161021 | A METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE TURN TIME OF A CONTAINER AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ZEROUAL, OMAR | — |
| 19112892 | A METHOD FOR HANDLING SHIPMENT OF A CONTAINER AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19161021 | A METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE TURN TIME OF A CONTAINER AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ZEROUAL, OMAR | — |
| 19112892 | A METHOD FOR HANDLING SHIPMENT OF A CONTAINER AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | — |
| 19053057 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | — |
| 18736400 | STRUCTURE FOR USE IN LASHING A SHIPPING CONTAINER TO A SUPPORT | BECK, KAREN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| 3626 | 1 |
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19161021 | A METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE TURN TIME OF A CONTAINER AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 3629 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2025 |
| 19112892 | A METHOD FOR HANDLING SHIPMENT OF A CONTAINER AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | MANEJWALA, ISMAIL A | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19053057 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18736400 | STRUCTURE FOR USE IN LASHING A SHIPPING CONTAINER TO A SUPPORT | BECK, KAREN | 3614 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialMaersk A/S has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Omar Zeroual has the most, with 1 of Maersk A/S's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
