Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co. Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but slightly varied examination environment. The presence of 3 distinct examiners suggests that each pending matter is handled by a different individual, preventing any single examiner from dominating the current prosecution landscape.
KANDAS, NICHOLAS R is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are responsible for only 1 pending action. This distribution implies that the company's legal strategy must account for the specific preferences of multiple examiners rather than concentrating efforts on a single point of contact. With 2 distinct art units involved, the prosecution team faces diverse technical standards within the broader mechanical systems category.
The lack of examiner concentration across the pending workload requires a versatile approach to patent drafting and response. Practitioners should monitor the specific tendencies of KANDAS, NICHOLAS R while preparing for distinct procedural expectations in the different art units. Maintaining consistency in technical arguments will be essential as the portfolio navigates these separate examination paths simultaneously.
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%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 84.6% | +20.9% |
| CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 1 | 83.3% | +27.8% |
| QUANDT, MICHAEL M | 1 | 62.8% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691069 | CAB FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 12d |
| 18869327 | Electric Construction Machine | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691069 | CAB FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 12d |
| 18869327 | Electric Construction Machine | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 17760890 | Construction Machine | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869327 | Electric Construction Machine | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18691069 | CAB FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 3676 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 17760890 | Construction Machine | QUANDT, MICHAEL M | 3745 | — | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
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