Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
R A Jones & Co. has 6 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units, so the pending work spans several examination channels despite its limited size.
HODGE, LINDA J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a substantial concentration of the listed matters, which supports handling the docket through matter-specific prosecution planning rather than a single examiner-focused strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HODGE, LINDA J | 1 | 87.7% | +26.6% |
| ADAMS, GREGORY W | 1 | 75.2% | +23.8% |
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| HESS, DOUGLAS A | 1 | 88.9% | +10.6% |
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.1% | +30.1% |
| LOWE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 67.0% | +19.7% |
| FRY, PATRICK B | 1 | 54.1% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102374 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 19102373 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878492 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING BLANKS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 28d overdue |
| 19486406 | A METHOD OF PACKAGING ITEMS IN BOXES AND A PACKAGING DEVICE OPERATING ACCORDING TO SAID METHOD | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| 19229042 | METHOD FOR UNLOADING FROM A SUPPORT ELEMENT A STACK OF BLANKS | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 18724947 | MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES AND RELATED PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES | LOWE, MICHAEL S | — |
| 18724123 | PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES AND MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES PROVIDED TO OPERATE ACCORDING TO THIS PROCESS | FRY, PATRICK B | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878492 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING BLANKS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 28d overdue |
| 19486406 | A METHOD OF PACKAGING ITEMS IN BOXES AND A PACKAGING DEVICE OPERATING ACCORDING TO SAID METHOD | HODGE, LINDA J | — |
| 19229042 | METHOD FOR UNLOADING FROM A SUPPORT ELEMENT A STACK OF BLANKS | ADAMS, GREGORY W | — |
| 19102374 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 19102373 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
| 18724947 | MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES AND RELATED PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES | LOWE, MICHAEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3652 | 2 |
| 3651 | 2 |
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19486406 | A METHOD OF PACKAGING ITEMS IN BOXES AND A PACKAGING DEVICE OPERATING ACCORDING TO SAID METHOD | HODGE, LINDA J | 3731 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2025 |
| 19229042 | METHOD FOR UNLOADING FROM A SUPPORT ELEMENT A STACK OF BLANKS | ADAMS, GREGORY W | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19102374 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2025 |
| 19102373 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2025 |
| 18878492 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING BLANKS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18724947 | MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES AND RELATED PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18724123 | PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES AND MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES PROVIDED TO OPERATE ACCORDING TO THIS PROCESS | FRY, PATRICK B | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialR A Jones & Co. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Linda J Hodge has the most, with 1 of R A Jones & Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
