Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Sandvik Mining And Construction OY

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Sandvik Mining And Construction OY has 13 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 13 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across the examining organization.

FRY, PATRICK B is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries a large share of the listed workload, so prosecution planning is more likely to benefit from matter-specific review than from a single examiner strategy. The art-unit spread also supports coordinating claim approaches while preserving flexibility for different examination contexts.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
4
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.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)

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.

6
Hard (46%)
6
Medium (46%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other4 (31%)
§103 only4 (31%)
§102 only2 (15%)
§112 only1 (8%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (15%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
8% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
8% of docket
11
Mechanical / Eng
85% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
FRY, PATRICK B 1 54.1% +8.2%
JHA, ABDHESH K 1 81.1% +16.5%
MARTINEZ, ELIZABETH GALYN 1 73.0% +25.5%
RAMESH, KRISHNAN 1 80.7% +18.3%
RIDER, JUSTIN W 1 84.4% +11.9%
WILHELM, TIMOTHY 1 78.6% +12.0%
WEBER, TAMARA L 1 87.3% +11.9%
CHARIOUI, MOHAMED 1 81.2% +12.7%
HALL, KRISTYN A 1 82.1% -5.9%
CHAD, ANISS 1 69.5% +29.1%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19102876 DATA PROCESSING RIDER, JUSTIN W 6d
19104093 OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE TRAJECTORY FOR A MINING VEHICLE RAMESH, KRISHNAN —
18689982 PROVIDING CONTROL INFORMATION HALL, KRISTYN A —

Hard Cases (6)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18563181 UNDERGROUND DRILLING RIG TRAMMING CONTROL CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS 92d overdue
18847444 COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FOR MINING VEHICLE POSITIONING WEBER, TAMARA L 28d overdue
19137471 ROTATING SLEEVE, ROCK DRILLING MACHINE AND METHOD FRY, PATRICK B —
19136165 CONTROLLING A STATE OF AT LEAST ONE OPERATION ZONE JHA, ABDHESH K —
18881134 NON-CABIN ARTICULATED TRUCK WILHELM, TIMOTHY —
18691075 MINING WORKSITE MAPPING CHARIOUI, MOHAMED —

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18847444 COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FOR MINING VEHICLE POSITIONING WEBER, TAMARA L 28d overdue
19102876 DATA PROCESSING RIDER, JUSTIN W 6d
19136165 CONTROLLING A STATE OF AT LEAST ONE OPERATION ZONE JHA, ABDHESH K —
19107662 CONTROLLING A MOBILE MINING VEHICLE MARTINEZ, ELIZABETH GALYN —
19104093 OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE TRAJECTORY FOR A MINING VEHICLE RAMESH, KRISHNAN —
18881134 NON-CABIN ARTICULATED TRUCK WILHELM, TIMOTHY —
18691075 MINING WORKSITE MAPPING CHARIOUI, MOHAMED —
18585152 MINING VEHICLE CALIBRATION CHAD, ANISS —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3668 3
3731 1
3663 1
2486 1
3617 1
3667 1
2857 1
3672 1
3662 1
3676 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19137471 ROTATING SLEEVE, ROCK DRILLING MACHINE AND METHOD FRY, PATRICK B 3731 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 10, 2025
19136165 CONTROLLING A STATE OF AT LEAST ONE OPERATION ZONE JHA, ABDHESH K 3668 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2025
19107662 CONTROLLING A MOBILE MINING VEHICLE MARTINEZ, ELIZABETH GALYN 3668 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 28, 2025
19104093 OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE TRAJECTORY FOR A MINING VEHICLE RAMESH, KRISHNAN 3663 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19102876 DATA PROCESSING RIDER, JUSTIN W 2486 §102 Final Rejection 6d Pending Feb 11, 2025
18881134 NON-CABIN ARTICULATED TRUCK WILHELM, TIMOTHY 3617 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 03, 2025
18847444 COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FOR MINING VEHICLE POSITIONING WEBER, TAMARA L 3667 §101§103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 16, 2024
18691075 MINING WORKSITE MAPPING CHARIOUI, MOHAMED 2857 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2024
18689982 PROVIDING CONTROL INFORMATION HALL, KRISTYN A 3672 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 07, 2024
18585152 MINING VEHICLE CALIBRATION CHAD, ANISS 3662 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 23, 2024
18563181 UNDERGROUND DRILLING RIG TRAMMING CONTROL CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS 3676 §101§103 Non-Final OA 92d overdue Pending Nov 21, 2023
18232934 CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF A TRACK-MOUNTED VEHICLE GENTILE, ALEXANDER VINCENT 3664 §103 Non-Final OA 81d overdue Pending Aug 11, 2023
18023775 UNDERGROUND WORKSITE VEHICLE POSITIONING CONTROL SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 3668 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Sandvik Mining And Construction OY have?

Sandvik Mining And Construction OY has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Sandvik Mining And Construction OY applications?

Patrick B Fry has the most, with 1 of Sandvik Mining And Construction OY's pending office actions.

What technology area are Sandvik Mining And Construction OY's patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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