Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Planiform Conveyors Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling one matter. The prosecution is also divided across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's conveyor-related technologies fall into different technical categories. PATEL, MIRAJ T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing a pending office action.
For practitioners, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions requires a tailored approach to satisfy the specific requirements of the assigned examiner. The involvement of 2 distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field indicates that the company must navigate two different sets of examination standards for its current active filings. Because the 2 pending office actions are evenly distributed, the company's prosecution success depends on managing two unique tracks. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners ensures that the portfolio is not overly reliant on a single examiner's interpretation.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, MIRAJ T | 1 | 83.8% | +21.6% |
| EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 1 | 52.1% | +46.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849964 | AUTOMATED GARMENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | PATEL, MIRAJ T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18551992 | AUTOMATED GARMENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 21d |
| 18849964 | AUTOMATED GARMENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | PATEL, MIRAJ T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849964 | AUTOMATED GARMENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | PATEL, MIRAJ T | 3655 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18551992 | AUTOMATED GARMENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM | EL-BATHY, IBRAHIM N | 3628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPlaniform Conveyors Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Miraj T Patel has the most, with 1 of Planiform Conveyors Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
