Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Link-Belt Cranes L P Lllp has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. However, both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a unified administrative focus despite the different examiners. The use of 1 distinct art unit allows the practitioner to focus on the specific policies of a single patent office division.
The busiest examiner is ADAMS, NATHANIEL L, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This accounts for a portion of the total 2 pending office actions. Since there are 2 distinct examiners, each is responsible for one of the active cases. The company must manage separate examiner relationships to resolve the 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
For the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the company must address the specific feedback provided by ADAMS, NATHANIEL L. The presence of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit suggests that while technical guidelines may be consistent, individual examiner preferences will still vary. Practitioners should monitor both cases to ensure that arguments made to one of the 2 distinct examiners do not conflict with the other. This concentrated administrative structure simplifies the procedural requirements for the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 1 | 71.4% | +20.6% |
| SOTO, HENRIX | 1 | 71.2% | +31.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18601227 | MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR ATTACHING A SUPPORT TO A CRANE AND RELATED METHODS | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 49d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18601227 | MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR ATTACHING A SUPPORT TO A CRANE AND RELATED METHODS | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 49d overdue |
| 18402281 | REEVING DEVICE FOR LIFTING MACHINE AND RELATED METHODS | SOTO, HENRIX | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18601227 | MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR ATTACHING A SUPPORT TO A CRANE AND RELATED METHODS | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 3654 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18402281 | REEVING DEVICE FOR LIFTING MACHINE AND RELATED METHODS | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 02, 2024 |
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