Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
25% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
50% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN 1 72.0% +20.9%
ALLEN, ANDRE J 1 91.4% +6.3%
WALTERS, RYAN J 1 74.2% +29.2%
ZAIDI, SYED A 1 81.8% +12.7%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18577352 TORQUE WRENCH EQUIPPED WITH A TIGHTENING ANGLE MEASUREMENT SENSOR ALLEN, ANDRE J 26d overdue
17921513 BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK BASED LICENSE MANAGEMENT ZAIDI, SYED A 16d

Interview Candidates (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18092970 TOOL EXCHANGE ASSEMBLY, SET AND CONFIGURATION INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE SUCH TOOL EXCHANGE ASSEMBLY WALTERS, RYAN J 44d overdue
17921513 BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK BASED LICENSE MANAGEMENT ZAIDI, SYED A 16d
18713844 SOCKET FOR POWER TOOL, METHODS OF CONTROLLING POWER TOOLS, CONTROL SYSTEMS AND POWER TOOLS LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN 30d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3731 1
2855 1
3799 1
2432 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18713844 SOCKET FOR POWER TOOL, METHODS OF CONTROLLING POWER TOOLS, CONTROL SYSTEMS AND POWER TOOLS LONG, ROBERT FRANKLIN 3731 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending May 28, 2024
18577352 TORQUE WRENCH EQUIPPED WITH A TIGHTENING ANGLE MEASUREMENT SENSOR ALLEN, ANDRE J 2855 §112 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18092970 TOOL EXCHANGE ASSEMBLY, SET AND CONFIGURATION INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE SUCH TOOL EXCHANGE ASSEMBLY WALTERS, RYAN J 3799 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2023
17921513 BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK BASED LICENSE MANAGEMENT ZAIDI, SYED A 2432 §103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Oct 26, 2022

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