Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 6 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
SMC Corporation is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 7 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that every pending action is assigned to a different individual. The administrative scope includes 6 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's applications are being reviewed across multiple technical departments. Practitioners should prepare for varied feedback, as the workload is spread across many officials.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PARK, HYUN D. This examiner is currently managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action is a portion of the 7 total pending office actions. Because the number of distinct examiners is 7, the company must navigate different examiner styles. The presence of 6 distinct art units indicates that the portfolio is not concentrated in a single technical group. No examiner or art unit controls the entire pending workload. The 7 pending actions reflect a broad prosecution effort across the 6 art units. This diversity requires a flexible strategy to address the requirements of the 7 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (71%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK, HYUN D | 1 | 41.7% | +22.8% |
| RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 1 | 54.5% | +27.8% |
| SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM | 1 | 61.9% | +37.6% |
| SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 1 | 57.3% | +22.3% |
| QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | 1 | 85.0% | +7.7% |
| CHIN, PAUL T | 1 | 71.4% | +15.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18147791 | END-EFFECTOR EXCHANGE DEVICE | LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18006045 | CHILLER | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 34d |
| 18148788 | PAD-EQUIPPED LIFT DEVICE | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342317 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS | SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM | 81d overdue |
| 18502141 | POSITION CALCULATION DEVICE | PARK, HYUN D | 19d |
| 17930763 | LIFT DEVICE | CHIN, PAUL T | 29d |
| 18006045 | CHILLER | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 34d |
| 18496978 | HOLDER, FLUID PRESSURE DEVICE, AND FLUID PRESSURE DEVICE SET | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 2 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18502141 | POSITION CALCULATION DEVICE | PARK, HYUN D | 2857 | §103 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18496978 | HOLDER, FLUID PRESSURE DEVICE, AND FLUID PRESSURE DEVICE SET | RUFRANO, ALEXANDER TYLER | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 18342317 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS | SIDDIQUEE, TAMEEM | 2116 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 81d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18006045 | CHILLER | SHAIKH, MERAJ A | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18148788 | PAD-EQUIPPED LIFT DEVICE | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 3654 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
| 18147791 | END-EFFECTOR EXCHANGE DEVICE | LOIKITH, CATHERINE A | 3674 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
| 17930763 | LIFT DEVICE | CHIN, PAUL T | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
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