Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Joy Global Underground Mining LLC currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. The workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing some concentration of technical subject matter at the unit level.
MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for only 4 pending actions, no single official has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current outcomes. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 4 separate examiner relationships while navigating the specific standards of the 3 distinct art units involved.
The presence of 3 distinct art units suggests that at least two applications share a similar technical classification, which may allow for some consistency in unit-level strategy. However, the primary challenge remains the individual preferences of the 4 different examiners assigned to these matters. Success requires a flexible prosecution approach that can adapt to the varied requirements of 4 separate officials across the 3 distinct art units.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | 1 | 58.2% | +32.8% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.5% |
| LAMBE, PATRICK F | 1 | 62.5% | +29.0% |
| COY, NICOLE A | 1 | 78.2% | -2.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875048 | WEAR INDICATOR | MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | — |
| 18759127 | CUTTING DISC WITH REMOVABLE CUTTING PORTIONS | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18875048 | WEAR INDICATOR | MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | — |
| 18759127 | CUTTING DISC WITH REMOVABLE CUTTING PORTIONS | LAMBE, PATRICK F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18875048 | WEAR INDICATOR | MANCINI, EVAN THOMAS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18814065 | BULK RESIN INJECTION SYSTEM | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 3678 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 18759127 | CUTTING DISC WITH REMOVABLE CUTTING PORTIONS | LAMBE, PATRICK F | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18738879 | CUTTING ASSEMBLY FOR LONGWALL MINING SYSTEM | COY, NICOLE A | 3672 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialJoy Global Underground Mining LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Evan Thomas Mancini has the most, with 1 of Joy Global Underground Mining LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
