Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
69 pending office actions • 11 clients • 53 examiners • 34 art units • 0 of 69 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
J-TEK LAW PLLC has 67 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Its career record covers 1690 applications, indicating a substantial historical prosecution base in the listed technology area.
The resolved allowance rate is 91.71%, with an average of 2.74 office actions per allowance. For practitioners, the combination supports review of both current examination workload and historical prosecution outcomes, while the average provides context for planning responses through allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (3%) |
| §103 only | 20 (29%) |
| §102 only | 4 (6%) |
| §112 only | 5 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 37 (54%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 6 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
| WAITS, ALAN B | 5 | 68.9% | +29.7% |
| JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | 3 | 81.6% | +12.8% |
| COMINO, EVA L | 3 | 70.4% | +32.3% |
| THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3 | 87.4% | +6.8% |
| KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 2 | 73.8% | +15.2% |
| SHUTTY, DAVID G | 1 | 69.1% | +12.9% |
| ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 1 | 84.1% | +9.7% |
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.3% | +24.5% |
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19278813 | SPHERICAL ROLLER BEARING HAVING RADIALLY OFFSET CAGE BARS | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | — |
| 19049550 | SLIDING LAYER FOR FLUID-LUBRICATED PLAIN BEARINGS | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | — |
| 19033713 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOUNTING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING CONNECTING ROD AND TANG | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | — |
| 18975530 | BEARING | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19058443 | RADIAL SHAFT SEALING RING | PATEL, VISHAL A | 43d overdue |
| 18924350 | OPTIMIZED BALL BEARING WITH FEATURES FOR IMPROVED LUBRICATION | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 42d overdue |
| 18117607 | WORKPIECE HOLDING DEVICE | VITALE, MICHAEL J | 3d overdue |
| 18438852 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MICROSTRUCTURAL DETERIORATION AND REMAINING LIFE OF A HARDENED METAL COMPONENT | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 5d |
| 18754361 | CARBON NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITION MATERIAL AND BEARING COATED THEREWITH | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 34d |
| 18829892 | BLADE FOR RECIPROCATING SAW AND RECIPROCATING SAW | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 42d |
| 19443183 | IMPACT TOOL | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| 19262291 | ADJUSTABLE CHOCK HAVING SLIDING FEATURE AND MOUNTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE ADJUSTABLE CHOCK | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18924350 | OPTIMIZED BALL BEARING WITH FEATURES FOR IMPROVED LUBRICATION | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 42d overdue |
| 18768422 | WHEEL HUB UNIT | WAITS, ALAN B | 6d |
| 19443183 | IMPACT TOOL | SHUTTY, DAVID G | — |
| 19262291 | ADJUSTABLE CHOCK HAVING SLIDING FEATURE AND MOUNTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE ADJUSTABLE CHOCK | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| 19220281 | BEARING DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL INSULATION, NOTABLY FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR OR MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 19218731 | MARKING FOR IDENTIFYING ROLLING ELEMENTS IN ROLLING BEARINGS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| 19199573 | BALL JOINT ASSEMBLY | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 19194167 | ROLLING BEARING WITH SEALS AND A SEGMENTED SPACER RING BETWEEN THE SEALS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SKF | 47 |
| MAKITA CORPORATION | 11 |
| Aichi Electric Co., Ltd. | 2 |
| UACJ CORPORATION | 2 |
| A. G. Stacker | 1 |
| Pilgrim International Ltd. | 1 |
| SKF Australia Pty Ltd. | 1 |
| Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | 1 |
| GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG | 1 |
| Komax Sle GmbH & Co., Kg | 1 |
| Younikat | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 15 |
| 3615 | 4 |
| 2834 | 4 |
| 3676 | 3 |
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3745 | 2 |
| 3725 | 2 |
| 3675 | 2 |
| 1771 | 2 |
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19443183 | IMPACT TOOL | Makita Corporation | SHUTTY, DAVID G | 3731 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 19278813 | SPHERICAL ROLLER BEARING HAVING RADIALLY OFFSET CAGE BARS | Aktiebolaget SKF | ADJAGBE, MAXIME M | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19262291 | ADJUSTABLE CHOCK HAVING SLIDING FEATURE AND MOUNTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE ADJUSTABLE CHOCK | Aktiebolaget SKF | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 3631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2025 |
| 19220281 | BEARING DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL INSULATION, NOTABLY FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR OR MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | Aktiebolaget SKF | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19218731 | MARKING FOR IDENTIFYING ROLLING ELEMENTS IN ROLLING BEARINGS | Aktiebolaget SKF | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19199573 | BALL JOINT ASSEMBLY | Aktiebolaget SKF | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 | |
| 19194167 | ROLLING BEARING WITH SEALS AND A SEGMENTED SPACER RING BETWEEN THE SEALS | Aktiebolaget SKF | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §101§102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2025 |
| 19192915 | BEARING DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRIC INSULATION, IN PARTICULAR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE OR MOTOR | Aktiebolaget SKF | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19192945 | BEARING DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL INSULATION, NOTABLY FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR OR MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHODS | Aktiebolaget SKF | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| 19192962 | VEHICLE WHEEL END ASSEMBLY | Aktiebolaget SKF | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 3615 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19187147 | FRAME LOCK | A. G. Stacker Inc. | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 3651 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19115840 | REBAR-TYING TOOL | Makita Corporation | DANIELS, MATTHEW J | 1742 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19115844 | REBAR-TYING TOOL | Makita Corporation | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19081388 | BEARING COMPONENT MADE OF CAST IRON AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | Aktiebolaget SKF | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19066274 | RADIALLY INNER ANNULAR ELEMENT OF A WHEEL HUB PROVIDED WITH FRONT TOOTHING FOR TRANSMITTING TORQUE | Aktiebolaget SKF | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19062233 | BEARING UNIT WITH RETAINING CAGE | SKF Aerospace France S.A.S | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19058443 | RADIAL SHAFT SEALING RING | Aktiebolaget SKF | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19057401 | ASYMMETRIC HUB BEARING UNIT | Aktiebolaget SKF | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19053587 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR APPLYING A COATING TO A BEARING COMPONENT | Aktiebolaget SKF | TALBOT, BRIAN K | 1712 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19049550 | SLIDING LAYER FOR FLUID-LUBRICATED PLAIN BEARINGS | Aktiebolaget SKF | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 19041030 | MOTOR AND COMPRESSOR | Aichi Electric Co., Ltd. | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19041020 | MOTOR AND COMPRESSOR | Aichi Electric Co., Ltd. | GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 19033704 | FIXING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING CLEVIS AND TANG | SKF Aerospace France S.A.S | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3676 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19033713 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOUNTING ASSEMBLY COMPRISING CONNECTING ROD AND TANG | SKF Aerospace France S.A.S | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3676 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18995320 | BEARING, MACHINE, LUBRICATION METHOD & USE | Aktiebolaget SKF | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18983559 | IMPACT POWER TOOL | Makita Corporation | RUSHING-TUCKER, CHINYERE J | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18975530 | BEARING | Aktiebolaget SKF | JOHNSON, PHILLIP A | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18870709 | MACHINE COMPONENT WITH A COATING AND PROCESS FOR MAKING THE SAME | Aktiebolaget SKF | GOLOBOY, JAMES C | 1771 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18944264 | CIRCULAR SAW | Makita Corporation | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18931281 | REBAR TYING TOOL, REBAR TYING METHOD, AND METHOD OF USING THE REBAR TYING TOOL | Makita Corporation | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18925344 | INTERNALLY SHUNTING GROUNDING BRUSH ASSEMBLY WITH AXIAL BRUSHES | Aktiebolaget SKF | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18924350 | OPTIMIZED BALL BEARING WITH FEATURES FOR IMPROVED LUBRICATION | Aktiebolaget SKF | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18858942 | ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | Aktiebolaget SKF | FOXX, CHICO A | 2685 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18829892 | BLADE FOR RECIPROCATING SAW AND RECIPROCATING SAW | Makita Corporation | PAYER, HWEI-SIU C | 3724 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18806880 | COUPLING FOR CONNECTING THE ENDS OF TWO ROTATABLE SHAFTS | Aktiebolaget SKF | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3676 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18795503 | SEALED SELF-LUBRICATING ROLLER CHAIN | Aktiebolaget SKF | LIU, HENRY Y | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18729594 | METHOD FOR PROLONGING THE LIFE OF A PRODUCT | Aktiebolaget SKF | YOO, JUN S | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18775318 | RADIAL FIT BOLT ASSEMBLY | Pilgrim International Ltd. | NGUYEN, LONG BAO | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18768391 | BEARING CAGE FOR A ROLLER BEARING | Aktiebolaget SKF | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18768422 | WHEEL HUB UNIT | Aktiebolaget SKF | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18725860 | Rolling bearing assembly | SKF Australia Pty Ltd. | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18754361 | CARBON NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITION MATERIAL AND BEARING COATED THEREWITH | Aktiebolaget SKF | OLADAPO, TAIWO | 1771 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18745073 | Grounding Brush Assembly | Aktiebolaget SKF | MULLINS, BURTON S | 2834 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18680038 | DRIVER-DRILL | Makita Corporation | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3722 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18655451 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING SEPARATION LAYERS IN A PRODUCTION PROCESS | Aktiebolaget SKF | KIO, MICHAEL TAMUNOELEKIM | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 | |
| 18693192 | EXTRUDED, MULTI-HOLE-PIPE MANUFACTURING METHOD | UACJ Corporation | MORILLO, JANELL COMBS | 1733 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18603321 | BATTERY-POWERED PORTABLE TOOL | Makita Corporation | ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND | 1752 | DP | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18438852 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MICROSTRUCTURAL DETERIORATION AND REMAINING LIFE OF A HARDENED METAL COMPONENT | Aktiebolaget SKF | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §101§102 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18681647 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING SUBSTANCE COMPOSITION IN VISCOUS MATERIAL | Aktiebolaget SKF | NIA, FATEMEH ESFANDIARI | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2024 |
| 18426434 | METHOD OF SELECTING SHIMS NEEDED WHEN PERFORMING AN ALIGNMENT OF SHAFTS OF A FIRST MACHINE AND A SECOND MACHINE | Aktiebolaget SKF | CONNOLLY, MARK A | 2115 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial91.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by J-Tek Law Pllc were allowed, across 1,690 applications in USPTO records.
2.74 office actions per allowed application on average.
69 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 11 clients, before 53 examiners in 34 art units.
