Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 5 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Crown Equipment Corporation has 13 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are located in 5 distinct art units. This spread across 5 art units for 13 actions suggests that the company's mechanical innovations are concentrated in a few key technical classifications.
There are 13 distinct examiners assigned to these actions. SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This results in a ratio of 1 examiner per action where every single pending action is currently being reviewed by a different examiner. This lack of examiner concentration means that no single individual has a dominant influence over the company's current pending workload.
With 13 pending actions and 13 examiners across 5 art units, the company faces a decentralized prosecution landscape. Because no examiner is handling more than 1 case, the company cannot leverage previous experiences with specific personnel to predict outcomes. Practitioners must be prepared for 13 different examination styles across the 5 art units involved in the 13 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (23%) |
| §103 only | 5 (38%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 1 | 69.5% | +19.5% |
| WANG, KAI NMN | 1 | 55.3% | +14.2% |
| SCHOECH, ASHLEY TIFFANY | 1 | 68.8% | +28.1% |
| SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 1 | 76.6% | +7.4% |
| ANWARI, MACEEH | 1 | 81.1% | +5.8% |
| ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 1 | 42.0% | +25.7% |
| ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 1 | 59.0% | +20.6% |
| NING, PETER Y | 1 | 83.1% | +15.8% |
| JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1 | 69.8% | +14.9% |
| MUNION, JAMES E | 1 | 76.5% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19221986 | MATERIALS HANDLING FIELD CREATION USING LOCATION DATA | ANWARI, MACEEH | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19266307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELATIVE POSE DETERMINATION AND FIELD ENFORCEMENT OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO TECHNOLOGY | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | — |
| 19222008 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA-BASED SHAPED DETECTION FIELDS FOR MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | SCHOECH, ASHLEY TIFFANY | — |
| 19222212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORIENTING A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | — |
| 19217094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SENSOR FUSION IN DETERMINING THE POSITION OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | NING, PETER Y | — |
| 18940203 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANYARD AND INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19187224 | BATTERY SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 16d |
| 19266307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELATIVE POSE DETERMINATION AND FIELD ENFORCEMENT OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO TECHNOLOGY | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | — |
| 19240142 | PERFORMANCE TUNING OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE | WANG, KAI NMN | — |
| 19222008 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA-BASED SHAPED DETECTION FIELDS FOR MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | SCHOECH, ASHLEY TIFFANY | — |
| 19219434 | PROVIDING RANGE-BASED ZONES IN A COVERED ENVIRONMENT | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | — |
| 19217192 | UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF POSITION SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE THE POSITION OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES WITHIN A COVERED ENVIRONMENT | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — |
| 19217094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SENSOR FUSION IN DETERMINING THE POSITION OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | NING, PETER Y | — |
| 18940203 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANYARD AND INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | MUNION, JAMES E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 2 |
| 1722 | 1 |
| 2688 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19266307 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELATIVE POSE DETERMINATION AND FIELD ENFORCEMENT OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES USING ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO TECHNOLOGY | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 19240142 | PERFORMANCE TUNING OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE | WANG, KAI NMN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 19222008 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA-BASED SHAPED DETECTION FIELDS FOR MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | SCHOECH, ASHLEY TIFFANY | — | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19222212 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORIENTING A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 3661 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19221986 | MATERIALS HANDLING FIELD CREATION USING LOCATION DATA | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3661 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19219434 | PROVIDING RANGE-BASED ZONES IN A COVERED ENVIRONMENT | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 19217192 | UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF POSITION SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE THE POSITION OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES WITHIN A COVERED ENVIRONMENT | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19217094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SENSOR FUSION IN DETERMINING THE POSITION OF MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES | NING, PETER Y | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2025 |
| 19187224 | BATTERY SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1722 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 18940203 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANYARD AND INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE | MUNION, JAMES E | 2688 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18935799 | ADAPTIVE ACCELERATION FOR SEMI-AUTOMATED DRIVING OPERATION OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE | BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA | 3666 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18804348 | BATTERY GUIDE BLOCKS FOR A BATTERY RECEIVING SPACE OF A MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLE, AND MATERIALS HANDLING VEHICLES INCORPORATING THE SAME | HANNON, TIMOTHY | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18340332 | INTRUSIVE INDUSTRIAL VEHICLE ALIGNMENT | PIATESKI, ERIN M | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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