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 • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions associated with this company. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests the intellectual property covers multiple technical niches within the broader mechanical field. For a practitioner, this distribution requires monitoring developments in more than one specialized division of the patent office.
The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, matching the total count of 3 pending office actions. FERGUSON, TYLER RAY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner holds 1 action, the workload is evenly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners involved in the company's current filings.
The presence of 2 distinct art units implies that the pending office actions may face different examination standards based on their specific unit assignments. FERGUSON, TYLER RAY manages a portion of the total pending actions. This lack of concentration among the 3 distinct examiners suggests that no single examiner's personal tendencies will dominate the outcome of the current portfolio prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, TYLER RAY | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 1 | 16.7% | +5.7% |
| TROOST, AARON L | 1 | 74.7% | +10.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321063 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC WORK VEHICLE | TROOST, AARON L | 41d |
| 19037516 | ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND WORK VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME | FERGUSON, TYLER RAY | — |
| 18330556 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORK VEHICLE | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18321063 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC WORK VEHICLE | TROOST, AARON L | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037516 | ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION AND WORK VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME | FERGUSON, TYLER RAY | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18330556 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORK VEHICLE | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2023 |
| 18321063 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC WORK VEHICLE | TROOST, AARON L | 3666 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
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