Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joy Global Surface Mining Inc. currently faces 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is handling more than one case for the company. The active prosecution is occurring across 3 distinct art units, indicating technical breadth in the pending mechanical systems applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WOOD, DOUGLAS S, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners involved, the company must address 5 different sets of examiner feedback. The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that the portfolio's current challenges are spread across different specialized groups within the patent office. This distribution requires the legal team to adapt to the specific examination practices of 3 different units while maintaining a consistent strategy for the 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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% |
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.0% | +19.3% |
| SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 1 | 76.6% | +7.4% |
| LONSBERRY, HUNTER B | 1 | 86.3% | +4.7% |
| SHUM, KENT N | 1 | 37.7% | +50.3% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462150 | SERVICE TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | 29d overdue |
| 18752108 | SWING AUTOMATION FOR ROPE SHOVEL | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 41d |
| 18981092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUND ENGAGEMENT TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| 18907524 | HOIST ROPE PROTECTION | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18462150 | SERVICE TOOL | SHUM, KENT N | 29d overdue |
| 18981092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUND ENGAGEMENT TOOL | WOOD, DOUGLAS S | — |
| 18907524 | HOIST ROPE PROTECTION | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3663 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18907524 | HOIST ROPE PROTECTION | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2024 |
| 18752108 | SWING AUTOMATION FOR ROPE SHOVEL | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | 3668 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18638571 | VIRTUAL FIELD-BASED TRACK PROTECTION FOR A MINING MACHINE | LONSBERRY, HUNTER B | 3663 | §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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