Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. has 9 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 8 examiners across 5 art units, showing that the portfolio spans multiple examination groups while retaining some examiner-level overlap.
RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. That examiner’s activity exceeds the single-action level implied by the remaining examiner assignments, making those files a logical point for coordinated review. The five art units also support organizing prosecution work by technology and examination group, rather than treating all matters as one homogeneous docket.
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 | 8 (89%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 2 | 77.8% | +7.7% |
| YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 1 | 79.7% | +22.7% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| MASIH, KAREN | 1 | 91.0% | +6.6% |
| TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA | 1 | 45.5% | -3.8% |
| PATEL, MANGLESH M | 1 | 75.1% | +17.9% |
| DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO | 1 | 74.3% | +20.9% |
| CHU, KATHERINE J | 1 | 46.6% | +20.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981157 | OPTIMIZING ELECTRIC MOTOR SHUT OFF TIMING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS | MASIH, KAREN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913693 | Screed Plate for Paving Machine | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING HEIGHT OF WORK TOOL OF WORK MACHINE | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | — |
| 18544545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING MOVEMENT PATH OF WORK MACHINE | PATEL, MANGLESH M | — |
| 18365387 | Method of Operating an Asphalt Compactor | DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO | — |
| 18184060 | MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM | CHU, KATHERINE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 3 |
| 3671 | 3 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING HEIGHT OF WORK TOOL OF WORK MACHINE | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19046284 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROAD MILLING WITH ADAPTIVE PLUNGE VELOCITY | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18981157 | OPTIMIZING ELECTRIC MOTOR SHUT OFF TIMING AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND SYSTEMS | MASIH, KAREN | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18974532 | MULTI-MACHINE PAYLOAD SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME TOTAL LOAD MONITORING ACROSS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT | TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18913693 | Screed Plate for Paving Machine | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18616685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ROTOR ASSEMBLY | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18544545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING MOVEMENT PATH OF WORK MACHINE | PATEL, MANGLESH M | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18365387 | Method of Operating an Asphalt Compactor | DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
| 18184060 | MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM | CHU, KATHERINE J | 3671 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialCaterpillar Paving Products Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 8 examiners.
Abigail Anne Risic has the most, with 2 of Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
