Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 15, 2026

Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

20 pending office actions • 11 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
15
Non-Final OAs
5
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

11
Hard (55%)
9
Medium (45%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other4 (20%)
§103 only7 (35%)
§102 only2 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (30%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
5% of docket
2
Communications
10% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
12
Mechanical / Eng
60% of docket
5
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 2 40.7% +6.7%
ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB 1 74.2% +32.7%
JHA, ABDHESH K 1 80.7% +17.0%
KIO, MICHAEL TAMUNOELEKIM 1
SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE 1 100.0% +0.0%
PHAN, TRUONG D 1 68.5% +16.3%
LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 1 80.8% +9.6%
CAMPOS JR, JUAN J 1 68.7% +19.8%
SHEN, QUN 1 76.3% +37.7%
NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 1 88.3% +11.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18834671 AUTOMATIC DRIVING SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE, WORK MACHINE, AND AUTOMATIC DRIVING PROGRAM LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 49d overdue

Hard Cases (11)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18708429 MONITORING AREA SETTING SYSTEM NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 34d
18248404 ROUTE SETTING SYSTEM ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 34d
19152342 CONTROL DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB
19113668 AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM JHA, ABDHESH K
18881524 CRANE AND CRANE ASSEMBLY METHOD KIO, MICHAEL TAMUNOELEKIM
18881555 CRANE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AND DISASSEMBLING CRANE SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE
18860188 WORK MACHINE SAFETY DEVICE ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF
18693431 VEHICLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM PHAN, TRUONG D

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18708429 MONITORING AREA SETTING SYSTEM NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 34d
19152342 CONTROL DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB
19113668 AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM JHA, ABDHESH K
18693431 VEHICLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM PHAN, TRUONG D
18723934 ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE INCLUDING SAME CAMPOS JR, JUAN J
18711326 IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD SHEN, QUN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3668 2
3661 2
3654 2
3663 2
3664 1
2662 1
2672 1
3666 1
2151 1
3667 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19152342 CONTROL DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE ALQADERI, NADA MAHYOOB 3664 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 30, 2025
19113668 AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND AUTOMATIC OPERATION INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM JHA, ABDHESH K 3668 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2025
18881524 CRANE AND CRANE ASSEMBLY METHOD KIO, MICHAEL TAMUNOELEKIM §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2025
18881555 CRANE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AND DISASSEMBLING CRANE SIMMONS, SYDNEY JEANINE §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 06, 2025
18860188 WORK MACHINE SAFETY DEVICE ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18693431 VEHICLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM PHAN, TRUONG D §101 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2024
18834671 AUTOMATIC DRIVING SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE, WORK MACHINE, AND AUTOMATIC DRIVING PROGRAM LEWANDROSKI, SARA J 3661 §102 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2024
18723934 ROPE INSPECTION DEVICE AND WORK MACHINE INCLUDING SAME CAMPOS JR, JUAN J 3654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2024
18711326 IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD SHEN, QUN 2662 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending May 17, 2024
18708429 MONITORING AREA SETTING SYSTEM NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 2672 §101§103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending May 08, 2024
18700401 WORK MACHINE BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH 3666 §103 Final Rejection Pending Apr 11, 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
18565903 LOWER CARRIAGE OF MOBILE CRANE AND MOBILE CRANE EQUIPPED THEREWITH SOTO, HENRIX 3654 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18278476 WORK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND WORK ASSISTANCE COMPOSITE SYSTEM SMITH-STEWART, DEMETRA R 3661 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2023
18250427 CONSTRUCTION WORK PLANNING SUPPORT DEVICE WHITE, JAY MICHAEL §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 25, 2023
18248404 ROUTE SETTING SYSTEM ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF 3667 §103§112 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Apr 10, 2023
17922635 REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE SERVER, REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE METHOD SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM 3668 §103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17790744 DISASTER COUNTERMEASURE SUPPORT SERVER, DISASTER COUNTERMEASURE SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND DISASTER COUNTERMEASURE SUPPORT METHOD ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 04, 2022
17778917 REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS 3663 §103 Final Rejection 66d overdue Pending May 23, 2022

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