Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M B H has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, combining broad examiner assignment with repeated art-unit coverage.
MESHAKA, MAXWELL L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The distribution means that no examiner provides a single point of portfolio control, while the smaller art-unit set may support review for recurring procedural or technical patterns.
Counsel should maintain action-specific analysis and use the shared art-unit assignments to compare treatment of related claim features. Centralized docket management is important because examiner coordination alone will not capture the full prosecution picture.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 1 | 86.6% | +15.4% |
| BUTLER, KEVIN C | 1 | 89.3% | +9.1% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.7% | +16.9% |
| BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 1 | 72.0% | +22.5% |
| AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 1 | 83.5% | +11.9% |
| KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 1 | 77.9% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686039 | WORK VEHICLE FOR CARRYING OUT WORK OPERATIONS ON A TRACK | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3d overdue |
| 18868878 | RAIL VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING A TRACK GAUGE COURSE | BUTLER, KEVIN C | — |
| 18849072 | DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING AN INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENT PRE-POSITIONED ON A GROUND, PARTICULARLY A TRACK SUPPORT SLAB, INTO A TARGET ARRANGEMENT, COMBINATION, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18871547 | TAMPING UNIT AND METHOD FOR TAMPING SLEEPERS OF A TRACK | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
| 18694750 | MACHINE WITH A BALLAST RECEIVIING DEVICE | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686039 | WORK VEHICLE FOR CARRYING OUT WORK OPERATIONS ON A TRACK | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3d overdue |
| 18014805 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR COMPACTING A BALLAST BED OF A TRACK | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 9d |
| 18871547 | TAMPING UNIT AND METHOD FOR TAMPING SLEEPERS OF A TRACK | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
| 18849072 | DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING AN INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENT PRE-POSITIONED ON A GROUND, PARTICULARLY A TRACK SUPPORT SLAB, INTO A TARGET ARRANGEMENT, COMBINATION, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| 18694750 | MACHINE WITH A BALLAST RECEIVIING DEVICE | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 3 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18871547 | TAMPING UNIT AND METHOD FOR TAMPING SLEEPERS OF A TRACK | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18868878 | RAIL VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING A TRACK GAUGE COURSE | BUTLER, KEVIN C | 2852 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18849072 | DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING AN INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENT PRE-POSITIONED ON A GROUND, PARTICULARLY A TRACK SUPPORT SLAB, INTO A TARGET ARRANGEMENT, COMBINATION, SYSTEM, AND METHOD | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18694750 | MACHINE WITH A BALLAST RECEIVIING DEVICE | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18686039 | WORK VEHICLE FOR CARRYING OUT WORK OPERATIONS ON A TRACK | AKARAGWE, YANICK A | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18014805 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR COMPACTING A BALLAST BED OF A TRACK | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPlasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M B H has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 6 examiners.
Maxwell L Meshaka has the most, with 1 of Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M B H's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
