Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
21 pending office actions • 12 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 62 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. has 20 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 17 distinct examiners and 12 distinct art units, showing a distributed docket with some repeated examiner and technical-unit assignments.
LEVY, MERRITT E is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner handles a small portion of the portfolio, so the broader prosecution challenge is coordination across multiple examination teams. Counsel should align core machinery positions while preserving responses tailored to the individual art-unit and examiner record.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (10%) |
| §103 only | 9 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (5%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVY, MERRITT E | 2 | 31.7% | +35.6% |
| SOTO, HENRIX | 2 | 70.8% | +29.3% |
| CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | 2 | 68.8% | +19.6% |
| SOOD, ANSHUL | 1 | 83.1% | +12.5% |
| ALI, LABIBAH ILMA | 1 | 83.3% | +0.0% |
| GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 1 | 67.4% | +5.2% |
| ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB | 1 | 75.5% | +30.4% |
| KIM, ANDREW SANG | 1 | 84.0% | +5.0% |
| PHAN, TRUONG D | 1 | 68.8% | +16.5% |
| PANDE, ASHUTOSH | 1 | 63.6% | -2.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19481279 | WORK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, WORK MACHINE, AND WORK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | LEVY, MERRITT E | — |
| 19477513 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION DEVICE | SOOD, ANSHUL | — |
| 19474425 | WORK MACHINE | ALI, LABIBAH ILMA | — |
| 19160268 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR REVOLVING WORK MACHINE | GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | — |
| 19152342 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE | ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB | — |
| 18867853 | CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE METHOD | KIM, ANDREW SANG | — |
| 18693431 | VEHICLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | PHAN, TRUONG D | — |
| 18842098 | ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19481279 | WORK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, WORK MACHINE, AND WORK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | LEVY, MERRITT E | — |
| 19477513 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION DEVICE | SOOD, ANSHUL | — |
| 19152342 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE | ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB | — |
| 18693431 | VEHICLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | PHAN, TRUONG D | — |
| 18842098 | ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
| 18723934 | ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE INCLUDING SAME | CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | — |
| 18716798 | CRANE | CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | — |
| 18693794 | TRAJECTORY-GENERATING SYSTEM AND WORK MACHINE COMPRISING SAME | LEVY, MERRITT E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 4 |
| 3667 | 3 |
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3664 | 2 |
| 3668 | 2 |
| 3661 | 2 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2494 | 1 |
| 2151 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19481279 | WORK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, WORK MACHINE, AND WORK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2025 |
| 19477513 | INFORMATION SYSTEM AND OPERATION DEVICE | SOOD, ANSHUL | 3667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2025 |
| 19474425 | WORK MACHINE | ALI, LABIBAH ILMA | 3667 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2025 |
| 19160268 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR REVOLVING WORK MACHINE | GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT | 3664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19152342 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE | ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB | 3664 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 18867853 | CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE METHOD | KIM, ANDREW SANG | 3668 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18693431 | VEHICLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM | PHAN, TRUONG D | 2855 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18857223 | WORK MACHINE SAFETY DEVICE | PANDE, ASHUTOSH | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18842098 | ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE EQUIPPED WITH SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18841418 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM | LITTLE, VANCE M | 2494 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18834671 | AUTOMATIC DRIVING SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE, WORK MACHINE, AND AUTOMATIC DRIVING PROGRAM | LEWANDROSKI, SARA J | 3661 | §112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18723934 | ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE INCLUDING SAME | CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | 3654 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18716798 | CRANE | CAMPOS JR, JUAN J | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18693794 | TRAJECTORY-GENERATING SYSTEM AND WORK MACHINE COMPRISING SAME | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18575867 | ACTUAL MACHINE DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 2151 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 01, 2024 |
| 18571330 | ACTUAL MACHINE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, ACTUAL MACHINE COMPLEX DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM, AND ACTUAL MACHINE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD | MARINI, MATTHEW G | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18565792 | MOBILE CRANE UNDERCARRIAGE | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18565903 | LOWER CARRIAGE OF MOBILE CRANE AND MOBILE CRANE EQUIPPED THEREWITH | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18558486 | SOIL QUALITY INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND WORK MACHINE PROVIDED WITH SAME | HISHAM, MOSTOFA AHMED | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
| 18278476 | WORK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND WORK ASSISTANCE COMPOSITE SYSTEM | SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18248404 | ROUTE SETTING SYSTEM | ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialKobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. has 21 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 18 examiners.
Merritt E Levy has the most, with 2 of Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
