Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.

8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 39 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

8
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

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.

2
Hard (25%)
5
Medium (62%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (12%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (50%)
§102 only1 (12%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (25%)
No statute on record1 (12%)

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
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
75% of docket
2
Business / Other
25% 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.

80 h
Manual time on pending OAs
16 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
28 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHU, KATHERINE J 2 46.2% +20.5%
TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA 1 55.6% -8.3%
LEE, JONG SUK 1 18.4% +27.4%
KHUU, IRENE C 1 45.5% +81.7%
SINGH, KAVEL 1 83.7% +14.0%
RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 1 77.6% +7.5%
DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO 1 74.3% +23.0%

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
18539480 DETERMINATION OF MASS MATERIAL RATES USING SENSOR FUSION SINGH, KAVEL

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18656742 DRUM OF COMPACTOR LEE, JONG SUK
18627670 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POSITION OF ENDGATE KHUU, IRENE C
18533233 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR HEATING A SCREED OF A PAVING MACHINE CHU, KATHERINE J

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
18656742 DRUM OF COMPACTOR LEE, JONG SUK
18627670 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POSITION OF ENDGATE KHUU, IRENE C
18539480 DETERMINATION OF MASS MATERIAL RATES USING SENSOR FUSION SINGH, KAVEL
18533233 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR HEATING A SCREED OF A PAVING MACHINE CHU, KATHERINE J
18365387 Method of Operating an Asphalt Compactor DEL VALLE, LUIS GERARDO
18184060 MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM CHU, KATHERINE J

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3671 3
3665 1
3672 1
3666 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18974532 MULTI-MACHINE PAYLOAD SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME TOTAL LOAD MONITORING ACROSS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA 3665 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 09, 2024
18656742 DRUM OF COMPACTOR LEE, JONG SUK Other Non-Final OA Pending May 07, 2024
18627670 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POSITION OF ENDGATE KHUU, IRENE C §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2024
18539480 DETERMINATION OF MASS MATERIAL RATES USING SENSOR FUSION SINGH, KAVEL 3672 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18533233 SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR HEATING A SCREED OF A PAVING MACHINE CHU, KATHERINE J 3671 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 08, 2023
18243537 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING CROWN TO REMEDIATE ROAD MAT ANOMALIES RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE 3671 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 07, 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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