Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Manitowoc Crane Group France

3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

3
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 30 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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

30 h
Manual time on pending OAs
6 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
10 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 1 61.9% +26.7%
TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA 1 66.7% +0.0%
ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 1 44.3% +36.0%

Interview Candidates (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18778920 AUTOMATED PROCESS FOR ESTABLISHING AN INVENTORY OF WORK CARRIED OUT BY LIFTING EQUIPMENT SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 46d overdue
17835341 METHOD FOR SECURING A CRANE TO THE OCCURRENCE OF AN EXCEPTIONAL EVENT ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3625 1
3665 1
3669 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18778920 AUTOMATED PROCESS FOR ESTABLISHING AN INVENTORY OF WORK CARRIED OUT BY LIFTING EQUIPMENT SINGH, GURKANWALJIT 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2024
18542591 WORKING CRANE CONTROL SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA 3665 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Dec 15, 2023
17835341 METHOD FOR SECURING A CRANE TO THE OCCURRENCE OF AN EXCEPTIONAL EVENT ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 3669 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 08, 2022

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