Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sany Heavy Machinery Limited operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action in its portfolio. This 1 pending office action represents the current focus of the company's patent prosecution efforts.
The examination is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. LEE, BRANDON DONGPA is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This concentration means that all active intellectual property negotiations are handled by a single individual in a specific technical unit.
For practitioners, the involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be the primary driver of the portfolio's progress. Navigating the specific requirements of LEE, BRANDON DONGPA is essential for advancing the company's interests in the mechanical systems field. The centralized nature of the current workload allows for a dedicated strategy tailored to the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 1 | 77.5% | +23.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920733 | EXCAVATOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR EXCAVATOR | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 169d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17920733 | EXCAVATOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR EXCAVATOR | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 169d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17920733 | EXCAVATOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR EXCAVATOR | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 3662 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 169d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2023 |
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