Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Komatsu Forest AB currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and the distinct art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a separate administrative unit, requiring a diversified approach to prosecution across the different units.
The busiest examiner for the company is CASS, JEAN PAUL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are actions in total, the workload is split between the busiest examiner and the other individual involved. This distribution suggests that no individual examiner has a disproportionate impact on the portfolio's current progress. Practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of the distinct art units to resolve the matters currently on file. The presence of various examiners and units for the actions suggests a lack of concentration in an individual USPTO group.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASS, JEAN PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +25.5% |
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691581 | INTERNAL LINE ROUTING FOR WORKING MACHINES HAVING BOOM ARMS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 30d overdue |
| 18702950 | FORESTRY MONITORING SYSTEM | CASS, JEAN PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18702950 | FORESTRY MONITORING SYSTEM | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18691581 | INTERNAL LINE ROUTING FOR WORKING MACHINES HAVING BOOM ARMS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
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