Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: 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
Hiab AB currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical and transportation filings are being reviewed in multiple specialized sections of the USPTO. The company is interacting with 3 distinct examiners, which means that every currently pending action is being handled by a different official.
SNELTING, JONATHAN D is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under their review. This distribution shows that the company must manage 3 separate examiner relationships simultaneously, with no single examiner holding a majority of the workload. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that while the examiners are different, there is some technical overlap in the groups reviewing the applications. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific mechanical standards of these 2 art units while tailoring their responses to the individual preferences of the 3 distinct examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNELTING, JONATHAN D | 1 | 68.6% | +31.8% |
| NEUPANE, ADARSH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 1 | 86.5% | +11.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538490 | WORKING EQUIPMENT WITH A LIFT FRAME ASSEMBLY | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 1d overdue |
| 18634477 | LIFT FRAME ASSEMBLY | NEUPANE, ADARSH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538490 | WORKING EQUIPMENT WITH A LIFT FRAME ASSEMBLY | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 1d overdue |
| 18985213 | WORKING EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985213 | WORKING EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLY | SNELTING, JONATHAN D | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18634477 | LIFT FRAME ASSEMBLY | NEUPANE, ADARSH | 3652 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 18538490 | WORKING EQUIPMENT WITH A LIFT FRAME ASSEMBLY | JOERGER, KAITLIN S | 3655 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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