Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Epiroc Rock Drills Aktiebolag

2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

2
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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%)
2
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only2 (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
50% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
50% 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.

20 h
Manual time on pending OAs
4 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
7 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HALL, KRISTYN A 1 81.8% -6.3%
SWEET, JOSHUA JAMES 1 50.0% +0.0%

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
18872482 CONTROL SYSTEM, DRILL RIG AND METHOD THEREIN HALL, KRISTYN A 77d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3672 1
2836 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18872482 CONTROL SYSTEM, DRILL RIG AND METHOD THEREIN HALL, KRISTYN A 3672 §103 Final Rejection 77d Pending Dec 06, 2024
18699506 EQUIPMENT, METHOD & COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT SWEET, JOSHUA JAMES 2836 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Apr 08, 2024

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