Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
UFP Industries, Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to examiner DO, ROWLAND, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The matter is currently being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused and narrow prosecution footprint for the company's active filings. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's active filings are concentrated under a single individual.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical review is confined to a single specialized group within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. For practitioners, this means that the entire current prosecution experience for the company is tied to the specific perspectives and requirements of DO, ROWLAND. Because there is only 1 pending office action, there is no opportunity for cross-application comparison. The prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the outcome of this single matter within its assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, ROWLAND | 1 | 70.0% | -5.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19213255 | REMOVABLE CLIP | DO, ROWLAND | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19213255 | REMOVABLE CLIP | DO, ROWLAND | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 20, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialUFP Industries, Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rowland Do has the most, with 1 of UFP Industries, Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
