Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
21 pending office actions • 7 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days
AGCO Corporation manages a portfolio with 20 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is distributed among 18 distinct examiners, which shows that most applications are being reviewed by different individuals. These examiners are situated within 7 distinct art units, indicating that the 20 pending actions are clustered into specific technical groups despite the variety of examiners. This concentration in 7 units allows for some consistency in the technical standards applied to the applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC, who is currently managing 2 busiest examiner pending actions. This examiner's workload is small relative to the total 20 pending office actions, but it represents the highest concentration of files under a single person. The presence of 18 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units suggests a need for a versatile prosecution strategy that accounts for various examiner styles. The volume of 20 pending actions indicates an active and ongoing engagement with the patent office in the transportation and mechanical sectors.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 | 3 (14%) |
| §103 only | 8 (38%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 2 | 85.2% | +10.1% |
| HARCOURT, BRAD | 2 | 84.2% | +5.3% |
| HO, ANNA THI | 2 | 40.0% | +33.9% |
| MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 1 | 81.1% | +17.6% |
| HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | 1 | 83.9% | +7.9% |
| WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | 1 | 85.9% | +9.6% |
| SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 1 | 78.1% | +7.4% |
| ALI, LABIBAH ILMA | 1 | 80.0% | +0.0% |
| LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 1 | 77.5% | +23.8% |
| TRIVEDI, ATUL | 1 | 90.9% | +9.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19109816 | Wide-cut Mower with Folding Cutterbar | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | — |
| 18987353 | Draper Belt Tensioner System | HARCOURT, BRAD | — |
| 18918797 | Agricultural Implements and Related Methods and Systems | TRIVEDI, ATUL | — |
| 18918731 | Agricultural Implements and Related Methods and Systems | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765666 | Solid Distribution Systems for an Agricultural Spreader | HO, ANNA THI | 5d |
| 18551722 | Methods of Detecting Foreign Objects in Crop Material, and Related Harvesting Machines | RODAK, LEE E | 33d |
| 18190214 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS FOR CROP SPRAYERS COMPRISING A WATER QUALITY SENSOR, AND RELATED METHODS | BARRERA, JUAN C | 46d |
| 19218878 | Guidance Information for a Support Vehicle to an Agricultural Vehicle | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | — |
| 19187678 | Agricultural Implements Comprising Plugging Detection Systems and Related Methods | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 19043763 | Roller Conditioner System | HARCOURT, BRAD | — |
| 18957097 | Vision Based Quality Loss Measurement | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | — |
| 18944431 | Crop Conditioning | ALI, LABIBAH ILMA | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18765666 | Solid Distribution Systems for an Agricultural Spreader | HO, ANNA THI | 5d |
| 19218878 | Guidance Information for a Support Vehicle to an Agricultural Vehicle | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | — |
| 19187678 | Agricultural Implements Comprising Plugging Detection Systems and Related Methods | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 18944465 | Crop Conditioning | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | — |
| 18918731 | Agricultural Implements and Related Methods and Systems | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 18005647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE CHASSIS HEIGHT OF A MACHINE | HO, ANNA THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 3 |
| 2485 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19218878 | Guidance Information for a Support Vehicle to an Agricultural Vehicle | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19187678 | Agricultural Implements Comprising Plugging Detection Systems and Related Methods | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19109816 | Wide-cut Mower with Folding Cutterbar | HUTCHINS, CATHLEEN R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19043763 | Roller Conditioner System | HARCOURT, BRAD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18987353 | Draper Belt Tensioner System | HARCOURT, BRAD | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18957097 | Vision Based Quality Loss Measurement | WRIGHT, GIOVANNA COLLINS | — | §101§102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18956548 | Agricultural Vehicles Including an Imaging Controller, and Related Methods | SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO | 2485 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18944431 | Crop Conditioning | ALI, LABIBAH ILMA | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18944465 | Crop Conditioning | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18918797 | Agricultural Implements and Related Methods and Systems | TRIVEDI, ATUL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18918731 | Agricultural Implements and Related Methods and Systems | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18843139 | Predicting a Capacity for a Combine Harvester | HARTMAN JR, RONALD D | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18765666 | Solid Distribution Systems for an Agricultural Spreader | HO, ANNA THI | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18726345 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SOIL CONDITIONS | PARK, HYUN D | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
| 18721092 | Wheel Weight Mapping of an Agricultural Implement | MORFORD, ALEXANDRA ROBYN | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18428636 | System for Tracking Crop Variety in a Crop Field | RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M | 2677 | §112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18551722 | Methods of Detecting Foreign Objects in Crop Material, and Related Harvesting Machines | RODAK, LEE E | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18303057 | IMPLEMENT CONTOURING TOOLBAR | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18190214 | LIQUID DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS FOR CROP SPRAYERS COMPRISING A WATER QUALITY SENSOR, AND RELATED METHODS | BARRERA, JUAN C | 3752 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
| 18158538 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL BALER | ALKIRSH, AHMED | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 18005647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE CHASSIS HEIGHT OF A MACHINE | HO, ANNA THI | 3752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2023 |
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