Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 11 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units, showing broad examiner distribution with limited art-unit repetition.
HAMID, AMMAR T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate recurring construction-machinery positions across the portfolio while tailoring each response to its examiner and art-unit setting.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 3 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMID, AMMAR T | 1 | 85.3% | +9.7% |
| WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 1 | 80.7% | +25.2% |
| LI, RUIPING | 1 | 77.0% | +18.2% |
| VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 1 | 74.7% | +27.6% |
| HILGENDORF, DALE W | 1 | 84.1% | +21.5% |
| SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 46.0% | +9.0% |
| TEKLE, DANIEL T | 1 | 63.4% | -6.0% |
| BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH | 1 | 67.7% | +27.9% |
| MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 1 | 25.8% | +30.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072336 | WORK MACHINE AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE | HAMID, AMMAR T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899565 | EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 49d overdue |
| 18743623 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | TEKLE, DANIEL T | 40d |
| 18985801 | WORK MACHINE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 18978487 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM | LI, RUIPING | — |
| 18978425 | EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| 18931630 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM | HILGENDORF, DALE W | — |
| 18059037 | EXCAVATOR | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985801 | WORK MACHINE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 18978487 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM | LI, RUIPING | — |
| 18978425 | EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| 18931630 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM | HILGENDORF, DALE W | — |
| 18474587 | EXCAVATOR | BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH | — |
| 18059037 | EXCAVATOR | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 2 |
| 2695 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2676 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072336 | WORK MACHINE AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE | HAMID, AMMAR T | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18985801 | WORK MACHINE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18978487 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM | LI, RUIPING | 2676 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18978425 | EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 3665 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18931630 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 3662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18899565 | EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 3662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18743623 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | TEKLE, DANIEL T | 2481 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18474587 | EXCAVATOR | BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18059037 | EXCAVATOR | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 9 examiners.
Ammar T Hamid has the most, with 1 of Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
