Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
11 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Heil Co. has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio involves 9 examiners and 7 art units, showing some concentration across both examiner relationships and technical groups.
KEENAN, JAMES W is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That concentration provides a practical focal point for reviewing examiner-specific positions, while the remaining matters call for separate analysis across their assigned examiners and art units.
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 (9%) |
| §102 only | 1 (9%) |
| §112 only | 1 (9%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (9%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (64%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENAN, JAMES W | 3 | 66.9% | +24.2% |
| HOLLOWAY, JASON R | 1 | 75.1% | +21.3% |
| KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 1 | 74.2% | +14.3% |
| GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.5% | +12.1% |
| YANG, WENYUAN | 1 | 68.0% | +16.7% |
| SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 1 | 93.4% | +7.6% |
| PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM | 1 | 84.2% | +27.3% |
| MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | 1 | 90.9% | +12.5% |
| SNELTING, JONATHAN D | 1 | 68.7% | +31.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941681 | FLEET VEHICLE WITH MONITORING SYSTEM | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19288884 | Refuse Vehicle Dump Verification System and Apparatus | HOLLOWAY, JASON R | — |
| 19005494 | RADAR-BASED ANALYTICS | YANG, WENYUAN | — |
| 18941401 | REFUSE LOADING SYSTEM WITH HORIZONTAL POSITIONING | PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM | — |
| 18941489 | REFUSE LOADING SYSTEM WITH REFUSE CONTAINER LIFT MECHANISM | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | — |
| 18808883 | Refuse Collection Vehicle with Telescoping Arm | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
| 18644358 | WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM WITH RECIPROCATING PACKING DEVICE | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | — |
| 17741041 | TAILGATE ACTUATION SYSTEM FOR A REFUSE VEHICLE | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17741047 | EJECTOR ACTUATION OF REFUSE VEHICLE TAILGATE | KEENAN, JAMES W | 30d |
| 19288884 | Refuse Vehicle Dump Verification System and Apparatus | HOLLOWAY, JASON R | — |
| 19238089 | Video Display for Refuse Collection | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | — |
| 19213068 | REFUSE CONTAINER IDENTIFICATION USING PARCEL DATA | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | — |
| 19005494 | RADAR-BASED ANALYTICS | YANG, WENYUAN | — |
| 18941401 | REFUSE LOADING SYSTEM WITH HORIZONTAL POSITIONING | PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM | — |
| 18941489 | REFUSE LOADING SYSTEM WITH REFUSE CONTAINER LIFT MECHANISM | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | — |
| 18808883 | Refuse Collection Vehicle with Telescoping Arm | KEENAN, JAMES W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 3 |
| 3655 | 3 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2422 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19288884 | Refuse Vehicle Dump Verification System and Apparatus | HOLLOWAY, JASON R | 3658 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2025 |
| 19238089 | Video Display for Refuse Collection | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2422 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19213068 | REFUSE CONTAINER IDENTIFICATION USING PARCEL DATA | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 3665 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
| 19005494 | RADAR-BASED ANALYTICS | YANG, WENYUAN | 3667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18941681 | FLEET VEHICLE WITH MONITORING SYSTEM | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 3668 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18941401 | REFUSE LOADING SYSTEM WITH HORIZONTAL POSITIONING | PATEL, JAIMIN GHANSHYAM | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18941489 | REFUSE LOADING SYSTEM WITH REFUSE CONTAINER LIFT MECHANISM | MOSCOSO, JUAN SALVADOR | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18808883 | Refuse Collection Vehicle with Telescoping Arm | KEENAN, JAMES W | 3655 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18644358 | WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM WITH RECIPROCATING PACKING DEVICE | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 17741041 | TAILGATE ACTUATION SYSTEM FOR A REFUSE VEHICLE | KEENAN, JAMES W | 3655 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
| 17741047 | EJECTOR ACTUATION OF REFUSE VEHICLE TAILGATE | KEENAN, JAMES W | 3655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | May 10, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialThe Heil Co. has 11 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 9 examiners.
James W Keenan has the most, with 3 of The Heil Co.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
