Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 10 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sandvik Mining And Construction OY maintains a portfolio with 12 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 11 distinct examiners. The involvement of 9 distinct art units suggests that the filings are distributed across 9 different technical groups. With 12 pending office actions and 11 distinct examiners, the company interacts with 11 different individuals at the patent office. The 9 distinct art units indicate the technical range of the current applications.
CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending actions. The other pending actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. Managing 12 pending office actions across 11 distinct examiners necessitates a strategy that accounts for 11 different perspectives. The 9 distinct art units represent the various classifications assigned to the 12 pending office actions. Practitioners must coordinate responses across the 11 distinct examiners involved. The busiest examiner's responsibility for 2 pending actions shows that the workload is not concentrated on a single person.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 4 (29%) |
| §103 only | 2 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (7%) |
| §112 only | 2 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (36%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 2 | 83.3% | +27.8% |
| JHA, ABDHESH K | 1 | 80.9% | +16.8% |
| RIDER, JUSTIN W | 1 | 84.2% | +12.1% |
| WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 1 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
| MURSHED, OSAMAH | 1 | — | — |
| SINGH, SUNIL | 1 | 67.3% | +24.8% |
| WEBER, TAMARA L | 1 | 87.3% | +11.9% |
| NEJAD, MAHDI H | 1 | 73.9% | +29.2% |
| CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | 1 | 81.1% | +12.8% |
| HALL, KRISTYN A | 1 | 82.0% | -6.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102876 | DATA PROCESSING | RIDER, JUSTIN W | 6d |
| 18689982 | PROVIDING CONTROL INFORMATION | HALL, KRISTYN A | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563181 | UNDERGROUND DRILLING RIG TRAMMING CONTROL | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 92d overdue |
| 18847444 | COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FOR MINING VEHICLE POSITIONING | WEBER, TAMARA L | 28d overdue |
| 18023775 | UNDERGROUND WORKSITE VEHICLE POSITIONING CONTROL | SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN | 5d overdue |
| 19136165 | CONTROLLING A STATE OF AT LEAST ONE OPERATION ZONE | JHA, ABDHESH K | — |
| 18881134 | NON-CABIN ARTICULATED TRUCK | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
| 18865194 | MEASURING ROCK BREAKING DYNAMICS | MURSHED, OSAMAH | — |
| 18656627 | GRIPPER, ROCK DRILLING UNIT AND METHOD | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
| 18691075 | MINING WORKSITE MAPPING | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18563181 | UNDERGROUND DRILLING RIG TRAMMING CONTROL | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 92d overdue |
| 18847444 | COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FOR MINING VEHICLE POSITIONING | WEBER, TAMARA L | 28d overdue |
| 19102876 | DATA PROCESSING | RIDER, JUSTIN W | 6d |
| 18861066 | MINING MACHINE COMPRISING AN ACTUATOR MOUNTING ARRANGEMENT | SINGH, SUNIL | 21d |
| 19136165 | CONTROLLING A STATE OF AT LEAST ONE OPERATION ZONE | JHA, ABDHESH K | — |
| 18881134 | NON-CABIN ARTICULATED TRUCK | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
| 18656627 | GRIPPER, ROCK DRILLING UNIT AND METHOD | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
| 18691075 | MINING WORKSITE MAPPING | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 2 |
| 3676 | 2 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19136165 | CONTROLLING A STATE OF AT LEAST ONE OPERATION ZONE | JHA, ABDHESH K | 3668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 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 |
| 18865194 | MEASURING ROCK BREAKING DYNAMICS | MURSHED, OSAMAH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18861066 | MINING MACHINE COMPRISING AN ACTUATOR MOUNTING ARRANGEMENT | SINGH, SUNIL | 3678 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18847444 | COORDINATE TRANSFORMATION FOR MINING VEHICLE POSITIONING | WEBER, TAMARA L | 3667 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18656627 | GRIPPER, ROCK DRILLING UNIT AND METHOD | NEJAD, MAHDI H | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
| 18691075 | MINING WORKSITE MAPPING | CHARIOUI, MOHAMED | — | §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 |
| 18575042 | CONNECTOR ARRANGEMENT, DRILLING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRO PULSE DRILLING | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 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§112 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
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