Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.

7 pending office actions • 7 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (4)

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%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
14% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
86% 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.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
OQUENDO, CARIB A 1 78.0% +13.2%
RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 1 77.5% +7.3%
KRECK, JANINE MUIR 1 78.1% +13.4%
EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 1 78.6% +27.3%
RAMOS, NICOLE N 1 81.2% +10.2%
ROBERSON, JASON R 1 74.3% +22.3%
LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ 1 51.1% +18.4%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18320679 NON-ROTATING BIT FOR CUTTING TOOL RAMOS, NICOLE N 16d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17738634 MONITORING INSULATION RESISTANCE OF A SCREED ASSEMBLY OF A PAVING MACHINE LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ 53d overdue
18320679 NON-ROTATING BIT FOR CUTTING TOOL RAMOS, NICOLE N 16d overdue
18223746 SERVICEABLE MILLING DRUM LOAD SUPPORT KRECK, JANINE MUIR 3d overdue
18811359 CONTROLLING INCLINATION OF A MACHINE USING NON-CONTACT SENSORS OQUENDO, CARIB A 9d
18334942 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING A DENSITY QUALITY OF A PAVING MATERIAL MAT LAID BY A PAVING MACHINE EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 21d
18313650 CONTROL OF A HYBRID POWERTRAIN SYSTEM ROBERSON, JASON R 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3678 1
3671 1
3672 1
2857 1
3722 1
3669 1
3663 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18811359 CONTROLLING INCLINATION OF A MACHINE USING NON-CONTACT SENSORS OQUENDO, CARIB A 3678 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Aug 21, 2024
18240043 PAVING MATERIAL AGITATION AND DISTRIBUTION BAR SYSTEM RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 3671 §103 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Aug 30, 2023
18223746 SERVICEABLE MILLING DRUM LOAD SUPPORT KRECK, JANINE MUIR 3672 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jul 19, 2023
18334942 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING A DENSITY QUALITY OF A PAVING MATERIAL MAT LAID BY A PAVING MACHINE EDWARDS, ETHAN WESLEY 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Jun 14, 2023
18320679 NON-ROTATING BIT FOR CUTTING TOOL RAMOS, NICOLE N 3722 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18313650 CONTROL OF A HYBRID POWERTRAIN SYSTEM ROBERSON, JASON R 3669 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending May 08, 2023
17738634 MONITORING INSULATION RESISTANCE OF A SCREED ASSEMBLY OF A PAVING MACHINE LEITE, PAULO ROBERTO GONZ 3663 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending May 06, 2022

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