Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Columbus Mckinnon Corporation is managing 3 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each of the 3 pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual.
MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under review. This represents one of the 3 total pending actions for the portfolio. The use of 2 distinct art units for the pending actions suggests some technical overlap, even though 3 distinct examiners are involved in the prosecution. This structure allows for multiple examiner perspectives within a relatively narrow technical scope of 2 art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| MORELLO, JEAN F | 1 | 68.6% | +9.0% |
| ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 1 | 71.4% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18232911 | Wire Rope Hoist With Swivel Sheave | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 2d overdue |
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18672720 | Trolley Single Point Adjustment System | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18592655 | Load Sensing Device for a Hoist | MORELLO, JEAN F | 2855 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18232911 | Wire Rope Hoist With Swivel Sheave | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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