Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 8 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. is currently navigating 14 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 14 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is assigned to a different individual. The workload spans 8 distinct art units, which suggests the portfolio covers several different mechanical or systems-based sub-specialties. This level of examiner diversity means that no single examiner's habits will dominate the company's overall prosecution experience.
The busiest examiner, VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the distinct examiners are each handling a single pending office action, the workload is distributed across the examination staff. This distribution across 8 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for many different examiner perspectives and art unit cultures simultaneously. Practitioners must prepare for separate sets of examiner preferences, as there is no overlap between the individuals reviewing these cases. This arrangement can lead to varied outcomes across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 2 (13%) |
| §103 only | 4 (27%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | 1 | 80.6% | +25.3% |
| VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 1 | 76.9% | +28.3% |
| LI, RUIPING | 1 | 76.8% | +18.4% |
| ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 1 | 57.7% | +38.5% |
| HILGENDORF, DALE W | 1 | 84.1% | +21.7% |
| VU, TUAN A | 1 | 73.2% | +21.1% |
| SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 45.2% | +5.7% |
| PANDE, ASHUTOSH | 1 | 58.6% | -2.9% |
| ANWARI, MACEEH | 1 | 81.1% | +5.8% |
| NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE | 1 | 74.8% | +15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899565 | EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 49d overdue |
| 18976910 | EXCAVATOR | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 3d overdue |
| 18743623 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | TEKLE, DANIEL T | 40d |
| 18985801 | WORK MACHINE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 18978425 | EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| 18978487 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM | LI, RUIPING | — |
| 18931630 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM | HILGENDORF, DALE W | — |
| 18895890 | EXCAVATOR, EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM, AND REMOTE EXCAVATOR OPERATION SYSTEM | ANWARI, MACEEH | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18976910 | EXCAVATOR | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 3d overdue |
| 18985801 | WORK MACHINE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — |
| 18978425 | EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| 18978487 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM | LI, RUIPING | — |
| 18931630 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM | HILGENDORF, DALE W | — |
| 18899454 | EXCAVATOR | VU, TUAN A | — |
| 18894400 | EXCAVATOR, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF EXCAVATOR, AND SUPPORT APPARATUS OF EXCAVATOR | NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985801 | WORK MACHINE | WILLIAMS, PATRICK C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18978425 | EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE APPARATUS | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 3665 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18978487 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM | LI, RUIPING | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18976910 | EXCAVATOR | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 3667 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18931630 | EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM | HILGENDORF, DALE W | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18899454 | EXCAVATOR | VU, TUAN A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18899565 | EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EXCAVATOR MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 3662 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18895879 | SHOVEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND SHOVEL MANAGEMENT METHOD | PANDE, ASHUTOSH | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18895890 | EXCAVATOR, EXCAVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM, AND REMOTE EXCAVATOR OPERATION SYSTEM | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18894400 | EXCAVATOR, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF EXCAVATOR, AND SUPPORT APPARATUS OF EXCAVATOR | NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE | 3658 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18891306 | ASPHALT FINISHER AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR ASPHALT FINISHER | LEE, JONG SUK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18883181 | ASPHALT FINISHER, AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR ASPHALT FINISHER | HARTMANN, GARY S | — | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 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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