Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Valmont Industries Inc. has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical classifications.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each of the pending actions is being reviewed by a different person. DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner manages more than 1 of the 4 total pending actions. Each examiner manages 1 case.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 1 | 65.8% | +35.6% |
| LIU, JINGCHEN | 1 | 62.7% | +65.0% |
| MARU, MATIYAS T | 1 | 60.7% | +2.5% |
| OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 1 | 55.1% | +52.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18351008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING WORKFLOWS | MARU, MATIYAS 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456562 | LIGHTWEIGHT FIELD IRRIGATION APPARATUS | LIU, JINGCHEN | 52d overdue |
| 17715991 | MULTI-CORNER IRRIGATION SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE STEERABLE POINTS WITHIN MOBILE IRRIGATION MACHINE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 15d |
| 19181587 | ROLL FORMED BEAM ASSEMBLY FOR LIGHTWEIGHT FIELD IRRIGATION APPARATUS | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 2148 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19181587 | ROLL FORMED BEAM ASSEMBLY FOR LIGHTWEIGHT FIELD IRRIGATION APPARATUS | DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. | 3752 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 18456562 | LIGHTWEIGHT FIELD IRRIGATION APPARATUS | LIU, JINGCHEN | 3741 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18351008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING WORKFLOWS | MARU, MATIYAS T | 2148 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 17715991 | MULTI-CORNER IRRIGATION SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE STEERABLE POINTS WITHIN MOBILE IRRIGATION MACHINE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Apr 08, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialValmont Industries Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.
Christopher R. Dandridge has the most, with 1 of Valmont Industries Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
