Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB maintains 7 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these 7 pending office actions is assigned to a different individual, as there are 7 distinct examiners. These examiners are spread across 4 distinct art units. LOPEZ, MICHELLE is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The 4 distinct art units indicate the technical variety within the company's mechanical engineering filings.
With 7 distinct examiners for the 7 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed. This means that every pending office action is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring the company to navigate 7 different examiner styles. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to LOPEZ, MICHELLE represents a portion of the 7 pending office actions. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of each examiner to ensure successful outcomes.
The 4 distinct art units suggest that the portfolio touches on several specialized groups within the USPTO. Managing 7 pending office actions across these units requires an understanding of the specific technical standards applied by each group. Because the 7 distinct examiners are spread across 4 distinct art units, there is likely some concentration of technical focus within certain units. This structure requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for both individual examiner preferences and art unit trends.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 1 | 81.9% | +11.6% |
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.3% | +22.2% |
| LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 1 | 72.3% | +20.3% |
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.1% |
| ZAIDI, SYED A | 1 | 81.9% | +12.1% |
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 38.7% | +51.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921513 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK BASED LICENSE MANAGEMENT | ZAIDI, SYED A | 16d |
| 18647849 | ML ESTIMATION OF TIGHTENING CLASSES UTILIZING NORMALIZATION | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19404576 | DETECTING MAINTENANCE INDICATOR OF TIGHTENING TOOL | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| 18720186 | DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR A TORQUE WRENCH | LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | — |
| 18720182 | HYDRAULIC TORQUE WRENCH | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| 17627063 | POWER TOOL ATTACHMENT PART | SHUM, KENT N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17921513 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK BASED LICENSE MANAGEMENT | ZAIDI, SYED A | 16d |
| 19404576 | DETECTING MAINTENANCE INDICATOR OF TIGHTENING TOOL | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| 18860785 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A MODEL OF AN OBJECT BEING PROCESSED BY A MANUALLY OPERATED TOOL | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18720182 | HYDRAULIC TORQUE WRENCH | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | — |
| 18647849 | ML ESTIMATION OF TIGHTENING CLASSES UTILIZING NORMALIZATION | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 17627063 | POWER TOOL ATTACHMENT PART | SHUM, KENT N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3723 | 2 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2432 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19404576 | DETECTING MAINTENANCE INDICATOR OF TIGHTENING TOOL | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3731 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2025 |
| 18860785 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING A MODEL OF AN OBJECT BEING PROCESSED BY A MANUALLY OPERATED TOOL | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18720186 | DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR A TORQUE WRENCH | LUNDY, DANIEL STEFAN | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18720182 | HYDRAULIC TORQUE WRENCH | LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN | 3731 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18647849 | ML ESTIMATION OF TIGHTENING CLASSES UTILIZING NORMALIZATION | COTEY, PHILIP L | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 17921513 | BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK BASED LICENSE MANAGEMENT | ZAIDI, SYED A | 2432 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Oct 26, 2022 |
| 17627063 | POWER TOOL ATTACHMENT PART | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialAtlas Copco Industrial Technique AB has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 7 examiners.
Michelle Lopez has the most, with 1 of Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.