Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 06, 2026

Kelly, Holt & Christenson (Johndeere)

59 pending office actions • 12 clients • 57 examiners • 32 art units • 0 of 59 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Quality Metrics (n=1209 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

92.8%
Allowance Rate
n=1209
+0.59σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=1209
4.5
OAs to Allowance
n=674
+0.55σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=674
1142 days
Time to Allowance
n=674
+2.4pp
Interview Lift
n=1209
47.9%
RCE Rate
n=1209
2.4%
Appeal Rate
n=1209

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

48.7%
§101 Overcome
n=78
74.2%
§102 Overcome
n=418
75.0%
§103 Overcome
n=617
77.0%
§112 Overcome
n=382

Specialization & Scale

B05B, A01D, G01N
Top CPC Subclasses
16%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=1209
1
Practitioners
n=1209
1209.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=1209

Portfolio Summary

59
Total Pending OAs
40
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 11 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

27
Hard (46%)
30
Medium (51%)
2
Easy (3%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (5%)
§101 + other4 (7%)
§103 only23 (39%)
§102 only4 (7%)
§112 only2 (3%)
Double-patenting + other3 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)20 (34%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

6
Life Sciences
10% of docket
1
Information Tech
2% of docket
4
Communications
7% of docket
6
Semiconductors
10% of docket
35
Mechanical / Eng
59% of docket
7
Business / Other
12% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

590 h
Manual time on pending OAs
118 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
206 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN 2 68.1% +34.9%
ANWARI, MACEEH 2 81.2% +5.4%
SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE 1 85.9% +12.8%
SEOL, DAVIN 1 66.7% +13.5%
KONG, SZE-HON 1 65.3% +14.4%
NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI 1 51.5% +11.4%
KAN, YURI 1 85.9% +12.3%
KINGSLAND, KYLE J 1 78.7% +7.1%
GIRMA, FEKADESELASS 1 76.9% +17.8%
PATTON, SPENCER D 1 73.8% +21.4%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19187588 MACHINE CONTROL USING A PREDICTIVE MAP KAN, YURI
18767653 REMOTE JOB QUALITY ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION ANWARI, MACEEH
18494180 MATERIAL TRANSFER STATUS MONITORING AND CONTROL ANWARI, MACEEH

Hard Cases (27)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18462613 3DS FET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 15d overdue
18652939 ROBOTIC FLUID SPRAYING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH SPRAY TIP WEAR COMPENSATION THOMAS, BINU 10d overdue
18552000 Water tank having a filter cartridge MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 14d
18392415 SPRAY TIP DIAGNOSTICS GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 42d
18961093 Untitled SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE
19261349 AGRICULTURAL PRE-EMERGENCE WEED MITIGATION SYSTEM SEOL, DAVIN
19190075 CROP CONSTITUENT SENSING NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI
19085346 SENSING TRACK CHARACTERISTICS ON A TRACK VEHICLE USING REPLACEABLE TRACK SENSORS KINGSLAND, KYLE J

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18961093 Untitled SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE
19261349 AGRICULTURAL PRE-EMERGENCE WEED MITIGATION SYSTEM SEOL, DAVIN
19193046 HARVESTING MACHINE HAULAGE VEHICLE COORDINATION CONTROL KONG, SZE-HON
19190075 CROP CONSTITUENT SENSING NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI
19187588 MACHINE CONTROL USING A PREDICTIVE MAP KAN, YURI
19080189 UNSUPERVISED ON-ROAD TRANSPORT OF AN AUTONOMOUS, OFF-ROAD AGRICULTURAL MACHINE GIRMA, FEKADESELASS
19057457 CONTROLLING SEED PLACEMENT BASED ON PRIOR MATERIAL PLACEMENT PATTON, SPENCER D
18782874 MATERIAL APPLICATION MACHINE WITH AMBIENT LIGHTING ADJUSTMENT PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN

Client Portfolio (12 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
37527
36635
36654
36663
36693
36623
41002
36562
37412
36571

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18961093 Untitled Deere & Company SIENKO, TANYA CHRISTINE §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending
19261349 AGRICULTURAL PRE-EMERGENCE WEED MITIGATION SYSTEM Deere & Company SEOL, DAVIN §101 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 07, 2025
19193046 HARVESTING MACHINE HAULAGE VEHICLE COORDINATION CONTROL Deere & Company KONG, SZE-HON 3657 §102§103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 29, 2025
19190075 CROP CONSTITUENT SENSING Deere & Company NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI §101 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2025
19187588 MACHINE CONTROL USING A PREDICTIVE MAP Deere & Company KAN, YURI §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Apr 23, 2025
19085346 SENSING TRACK CHARACTERISTICS ON A TRACK VEHICLE USING REPLACEABLE TRACK SENSORS Deere & Company KINGSLAND, KYLE J 3663 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2025
19080189 UNSUPERVISED ON-ROAD TRANSPORT OF AN AUTONOMOUS, OFF-ROAD AGRICULTURAL MACHINE Deere & Company GIRMA, FEKADESELASS 4100 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 14, 2025
19057457 CONTROLLING SEED PLACEMENT BASED ON PRIOR MATERIAL PLACEMENT Deere & Company PATTON, SPENCER D 3656 §112Other Non-Final OA Pending Feb 19, 2025
19034281 ADAPTIVE FORWARD-LOOKING CHARACTERISTIC CONVERSION AND MACHINE CONTROL DURING CROP HARVESTING OPERATIONS Deere & Company WHITTINGTON, JESS G 3666 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 22, 2025
18991964 DRY POWDER FIRE EXTINGUISHER WITH IMPROVED GAS GENERATOR Spectronix Ltd. DANDRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER R. 3752 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2024
18977285 ROW GUIDANCE USING SENSOR DATA FUSION Deere & Company HEFLIN, HARRISON JAMES RIEL 3665 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 11, 2024
18934963 NON-CROP AREA DETECTION AND AUTOMATED CONTROL Deere & Company CAIN, AARON G 3656 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 01, 2024
18815392 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MACHINE SETTINGS AND CONTROL Deere & Company CHOWDHURY, RAYEEZ R §103DP Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18810703 WAFER-LIKE SENSOR Cyberoptics Corporation PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA 1783 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 21, 2024
18782874 MATERIAL APPLICATION MACHINE WITH AMBIENT LIGHTING ADJUSTMENT Deere & Company PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN 3752 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2024
18767662 OBSTRUCTION AND REMOTE ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION Deere & Company BEAN, JARED C 3669 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767669 REMOTE FORWARD ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION Deere & Company ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 3667 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767653 REMOTE JOB QUALITY ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION Deere & Company ANWARI, MACEEH 3663 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767668 REMOTE SUPPORT MACHINE ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION Deere & Company SHAAWAT, MUSSA A 3669 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767693 REMOTE LATERAL ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION Deere & Company MILLER, PRESTON JAY 3661 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18767685 REMOTE MACHINE OPERATING EFFECT ATTRIBUTE MONITORING DURING AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION Deere & Company CHEN, SHELLEY 3665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 09, 2024
18747790 IMPELLER FOR A RADIAL FAN EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & CO. KG ELLIOTT, TOPAZ L 3761 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 19, 2024
18672570 USING A WEIGHT VERSUS POSITION PROFILE TO CONTROL AUTOMATED UNLOADING Deere & Company UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL 3662 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 23, 2024
18670066 PLURAL COMPONENT SPRAY GUN SYSTEM Wagner Spray Tech Corporation LIEUWEN, CODY J 3752 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 21, 2024
18652939 ROBOTIC FLUID SPRAYING CONTROL SYSTEM WITH SPRAY TIP WEAR COMPENSATION Wagner Spray Tech Corporation THOMAS, BINU 1717 §102§103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending May 02, 2024
18639460 IMPROVED VALVE ACTUATING MECHANISM ASSEMBLY Wagner Spray Tech Corporation LIU, JINGCHEN 3741 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 18, 2024
18634301 REMOTE CONFIGURATION, INITIATION, AND MANAGEMENT OF UNLOADING OPERATIONS Deere & Company RAO, SHEELA S 2119 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 12, 2024
18593137 ROUGH APPROACH AND PRECISE CONTROL OF VEHICLE POSITION Deere & Company REIDY, SEAN PATRICK 3663 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 01, 2024
18440268 FLUID SPRAY TIPS HAVING SECURING ELEMENTS FORMED IN THE FLUID SPRAY TIP BODY AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF Wagner Spray Tech Corporation FORD, RENE D 3741 §102 Final Rejection 63d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18392415 SPRAY TIP DIAGNOSTICS Wagner Spray Tech Corporation GREENLUND, JOSEPH A 3752 §102§103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18533479 CONTACTING-TYPE CONDUCTIVITY SENSOR WITH CORROSION DIAGNOSTIC Rosemount Inc. TRAN, VIVIAN AILINH 1794 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 08, 2023
18565701 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING DOUBLE-GATE STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Institute Of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences OWENS, DOUGLAS W 2897 §102 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18495225 CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING TRANSFER OF MATERIAL FROM A TRANSFER VEHICLE TO A HAULAGE VEHICLE Deere & Company KNIGHT, CONNOR LEE 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 26, 2023
18494180 MATERIAL TRANSFER STATUS MONITORING AND CONTROL Deere & Company ANWARI, MACEEH 3663 §102 Final Rejection Pending Oct 25, 2023
18490911 AGRICULTURAL SPRAYER PERFORMANCE CONTROL SYSTEM Deere & Company PHAM, TUONGMINH NGUYEN 3752 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2023
18491118 MODULAR INDUSTRIAL TRANSMITTER ARCHITECTURE AND INTERFACE Rosemount Inc. NGUYEN, NAM V 2685 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2023
18489298 MOBILE WORK MACHINE CONTROL BASED ON WORKSITE CONDITION PERFORMANCE IMPACT Deere & Company BRYANT, CHRISTIAN THOMAS 2857 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 18, 2023
18555366 SPRAY APPARATUS FOR SPRAYING A COSMETIC LIQUID, METHOD FOR OPERATING A SPRAY APPARATUS, NOZZLE FOR A SPRAY APPARATUS AND NOZZLE ARRAY FOR A SPRAY APPARATUS J. Wagner GmbH SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD 3752 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 13, 2023
18480986 GENERATING PRESCRIPTIVE DEPTH VALUES BASED ON SOIL ENVIRONMENT AND CONTROLLING AN ACTUATOR TO VARY PLANTING DEPTH BASED ON THE PRESCRIPTIVE DEPTH VALUES Deere & Company NGUYEN, JASON TOAN 3666 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 04, 2023
18552000 Water tank having a filter cartridge Aclaris Water Innovations GmbH , Lindau , Zweigniederlassung MILLER-CRUZ, EKANDRA S. 1773 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 22, 2023
18462613 3DS FET AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME Institute Of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences HOQUE, MOHAMMAD M 2817 §102§103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 07, 2023
18264967 AMINO ACID-BASED GLASS, PREPARATION METHOD AND USE THEREOF Institute Of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy Of Sciences HA, JULIE 1654 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 10, 2023
18358401 PERFORMING A FILL-TO-WEIGHT UNLOADING OPERATION Deere & Company HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE 3664 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18351801 FLEXIBLE NET COMPONENT FOR PLAYGROUND DEVICES Landscape Structures Inc. HARRIS, DOROTHY H 2625 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 13, 2023
18338794 PROCESS PRESSURE TRANSMITTER FOR HYDROGEN APPLICATIONS Rosemount Inc. HA, NGUYEN Q 2853 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 21, 2023
18250128 SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH SIDEWALL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS WITH SIDEWALL INTERCONNECTION STRUCTURE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Institute Of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences CHUNG, ANDREW 2898 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 21, 2023
18194178 COTTON HARVESTER CONTROL USING PREDICTIVE MAPS Deere & Company LONSBERRY, HUNTER B 3665 §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 31, 2023
18171555 AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT WITH ACOUSTIC/VIBRATION SENSOR AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM Deere & Company MCGOWAN, JAMIE LOUISE 3671 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 20, 2023
18055955 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR MANAGING A DIGITAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE RELATED TO RESCUE OPERATIONS, AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS AVAILABLE IN AN EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN POOL Peiker Holding GmbH PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 4100 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 16, 2022
18051376 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ON A WORK VEHICLE WITH AUTOMATED SIM SELECTION CONTROLLER Deere & Company TULOP, JIRAPON INTAVONG 2693 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2022
18050200 SELECTIVE FERTILIZER PLACEMENT BASED ON OPTICAL SEED DETECTION Deere & Company ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN 3662 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Oct 27, 2022
17749619 HIGH PRESSURE SINGLE-USE ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYTICAL SENSOR Rosemount Inc. QIAN, SHIZHI 1795 §112 Final Rejection Pending May 20, 2022
17731853 NANOWIRE/NANOSHEET DEVICE WITH SUPPORT PORTION, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Institute Of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy Of Sciences PURVIS, SUE A 2800 §103Other Final Rejection Pending Apr 28, 2022
17669027 OBTAINING AND AUGMENTING AGRICULTURAL DATA AND GENERATING AN AUGMENTED DISPLAY Deere & Company WANG, JIN CHENG 2617 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2022
17586308 EQUIPMENT SETTINGS CONTROL BASED ON AGGREGATED DATA Deere & Company ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P 3662 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2022
17584986 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MATERIAL SPILL Deere & Company KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M 3665 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 26, 2022
17309731 PUMP SYSTEM J. Wagner GmbH BOECKMANN, JASON J 3752 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2021
17224635 SYSTEM CONFIDENCE DISPLAY AND CONTROL FOR MOBILE MACHINES Deere & Company LAMBERT, GABRIEL JOSEPH RENE 3669 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 07, 2021
17086756 TOPOGRAPHIC CONFIDENCE AND CONTROL Deere & Company SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 3663 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2020

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