Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joy Global Surface Mining Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Each matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, indicating a dispersed prosecution profile despite the shared mechanical technology area.
WOOD, DOUGLAS S is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The repeated name in the broader examination environment does not create a concentration within this portfolio, so each response should be prepared from its own record.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 1 | 78.2% | +11.6% |
| LONSBERRY, HUNTER B | 1 | 86.3% | +4.7% |
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 38.5% | +48.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638571 | VIRTUAL FIELD-BASED TRACK PROTECTION FOR A MINING MACHINE | LONSBERRY, HUNTER B | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462150 | SERVICE TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | 29d overdue |
| 18981092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUND ENGAGEMENT TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462150 | SERVICE TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | 29d overdue |
| 18981092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUND ENGAGEMENT TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUND ENGAGEMENT TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18638571 | VIRTUAL FIELD-BASED TRACK PROTECTION FOR A MINING MACHINE | LONSBERRY, HUNTER B | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18462150 | SERVICE TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Sep 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialJoy Global Surface Mining Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Douglas S Wood has the most, with 1 of Joy Global Surface Mining Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
