Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.

83 pending office actions • 39 art units • 76 examiners • 0 of 83 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 77 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

83
Total Pending OAs
45
Non-Final OAs
35
Final Rejections
3
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

17
Overdue
1
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 25 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (17)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

39
Hard (47%)
40
Medium (48%)
4
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other11 (13%)
§103 only34 (41%)
§102 only6 (7%)
§112 only4 (5%)
Multi-statute (no §101)28 (34%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

16
Life Sciences
19% of docket
8
Information Tech
10% of docket
3
Communications
4% of docket
8
Semiconductors
10% of docket
27
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
21
Business / Other
25% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

830 h
Manual time on pending OAs
166 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
290 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
7.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 4 47.3% +32.7%
BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 3 53.7% +18.0%
BEAN, JARED C 2 63.4% +40.6%
DANIELS, MATTHEW J 2 69.6% +25.3%
ALCORN III, GEORGE A 1 62.7% +34.1%
NGUYEN, TAN QUANG 1 90.6% +7.1%
TON, TRI T 1 86.1% +10.4%
FIX, THOMAS S 1 72.0% +15.9%
GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1 68.7% +44.2%
DARNELL, BAILEIGH K 1 69.7% +27.0%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19226623 REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE NGUYEN, TAN QUANG

Hard Cases (39)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19046208 POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND ROBOT FIX, THOMAS S 72d overdue
17645789 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF WORK MACHINE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF WORK MACHINE, WORKER'S TERMINAL DEVICE, CONSTRACTOR'S TERMINAL DEVICE WHITAKER, ANDREW B 71d overdue
18475213 DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM TRAN, VI N 46d overdue
17881267 SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 37d overdue
18675576 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION DEVICE HUSSEIN, ALAA WADIE 31d overdue
18828239 SUPPORTING DEVICE, WORK MACHINE, AND PROGRAM BEAN, JARED C 28d overdue
18904426 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE DANIELS, MATTHEW J 17d overdue
18331199 MOLDING SYSTEM THONG, YEONG JUEN 8d overdue

Interview Candidates (16)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19046208 POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND ROBOT FIX, THOMAS S 72d overdue
18828239 SUPPORTING DEVICE, WORK MACHINE, AND PROGRAM BEAN, JARED C 28d overdue
18904426 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE DANIELS, MATTHEW J 17d overdue
18743087 CRYOCOOLER COMPRESSOR MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 15d overdue
18933023 CONTROL DEVICE FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 9d overdue
18741730 GAS REPLACEMENT METHOD FOR EXPANDER OF CRYOCOOLER, CRYOCOOLER, AND GAS REPLACEMENT PIPE MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 15d
19247640 CRANE SITE OBSTACLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND CRANE ALCORN III, GEORGE A
19075745 SURFACE ROUGHNESS CALCULATION DEVICE TON, TRI T

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3763 5
1748 4
1743 3
3665 3
3669 3
1741 3
2834 3
3662 2
3666 2
1742 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19247640 CRANE SITE OBSTACLE DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND CRANE ALCORN III, GEORGE A 3661 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 24, 2025
19226623 REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM FOR WORK MACHINE NGUYEN, TAN QUANG §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2025
19075745 SURFACE ROUGHNESS CALCULATION DEVICE TON, TRI T §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 10, 2025
19055748 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 18, 2025
19046208 POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND ROBOT FIX, THOMAS S 3618 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Feb 05, 2025
18991723 MOLD UNIT GHORISHI, SEYED BEHROOZ 1748 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 23, 2024
18991511 OPERATION MECHANISM, BLOW MOLDING MECHANISM, SPLIT MOLD, AND MOLD UNIT DARNELL, BAILEIGH K 1743 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2024
18987633 WORK MACHINE, OPERATION ASSISTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM SU, STEPHANIE T 3662 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2024
18985824 WORK MACHINE WILKINSON, RALPH DAVID §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18986500 CRANE AZHAR, ARSLAN §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18985721 EXCAVATOR AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR EXCAVATOR VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN 3665 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2024
18985869 SURROUNDING MONITORING DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE, AND WORK MACHINE WU, YANNA §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18983963 WORK MACHINE, REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTING DEVICE, AND ASSISTING SYSTEM BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN 3666 §103 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Dec 17, 2024
18983354 CRANE ROBERSON, JASON R §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18983382 CRYOGENIC SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CRYOGENIC SYSTEM BABAA, NAEL N §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18984903 CRANE BEAN, JARED C §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18981667 CRYOGENIC REFRIGERATOR MENGESHA, WEBESHET §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18979726 SUPERCONDUCTING EQUIPMENT COOLING DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD FOR SUPERCONDUCTING EQUIPMENT COOLING DEVICE MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18978398 CONTROL SYSTEM FOR EXCAVATOR AND EXCAVATOR OVALLE JR., DAVID MESQUITI 3669 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 12, 2024
18978428 SHOVEL AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR SHOVEL ROBERT, DANIEL M 3665 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2024
18956407 CONSTRUCTION MACHINE AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION MACHINE SMITH, JORDAN T 3666 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2024
18935680 EXTENSION ROD SLIDING MECHANISM, INTERMEDIATE MOLD, AND MOLD UNIT MACHNESS, ARIELLA 1743 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 04, 2024
18933023 CONTROL DEVICE FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1741 §103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2024
18928613 MONITORING DEVICE FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1741 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 28, 2024
18926440 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE AND MOLTEN RESIN SUPPLY SYSTEM BERNARD, ADRIEN J 1741 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 25, 2024
18915644 CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR SPATIAL RECOGNITION DEVICES FOR WORK MACHINE, AND WORK MACHINE CZEKAJ, DAVID J §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 15, 2024
18904426 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1742 §102§103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Oct 02, 2024
18905119 MOLDING PRODUCT TAKING-OUT SYSTEM, MOLDING MACHINE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND MOLDING PRODUCT TAKING-OUT METHOD SANDERS, JAMES M 1743 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 02, 2024
18903352 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE DANIELS, MATTHEW J 1742 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 01, 2024
18900511 NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY APPARATUS STOFFA, WYATT A §112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 27, 2024
18898578 NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY DEVICE AND COLLIMATOR IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE §102 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 26, 2024
18895408 CRYOCOOLER ADENIJI, IBRAHIM M §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 25, 2024
18884218 METHOD FOR REGENERATING CRYOPUMP AND CRYOPUMP ZEC, FILIP §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18884327 CRYOCOOLER AND FLEXIBLE HOSE FOR CRYOCOOLER SCHNEIDER, CRAIG M §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18828239 SUPPORTING DEVICE, WORK MACHINE, AND PROGRAM BEAN, JARED C 3669 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18824035 OPERATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, WORK MACHINE, REMOTE OPERATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM MCCLEARY, CAITLIN RENEE 3669 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 04, 2024
18815206 PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY FACILITY AND PARTICLE BEAM THERAPY DEVICE SMYTH, ANDREW P §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 26, 2024
18807466 WALL-TRAVERSING VEHICLE SHABARA, HOSAM §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 16, 2024
18793771 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2024
18762742 CRYOPUMP SYSTEM, CRYOPUMP MONITORING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING CRYOPUMP MONITORING PROGRAM FREAY, CHARLES GRANT 3746 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18753314 DISPLAY DEVICE FOR EXCAVATOR, DISPLAY DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE, AND MONITOR SYSTEM OF EXCAVATOR PHAM, QUANG 2685 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 25, 2024
18743087 CRYOCOOLER COMPRESSOR MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18741730 GAS REPLACEMENT METHOD FOR EXPANDER OF CRYOCOOLER, CRYOCOOLER, AND GAS REPLACEMENT PIPE MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 §103 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jun 12, 2024
18677840 METHOD FOR DISASSEMBLING CRYOCOOLER BANKS, KEONA LAUREN 3763 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 29, 2024
18675576 PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PRODUCTION DEVICE HUSSEIN, ALAA WADIE 3626 §101§112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 28, 2024
18669074 REEL DEVICE JEFFERSON, TIFFANY DOMONIQUE 3654 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 20, 2024
18665614 REGENERATOR MATERIAL FOR CRYOCOOLER, REGENERATOR FOR CRYOCOOLER, AND CRYOCOOLER MOORE, DEVON TYLEN 3763 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 16, 2024
18661669 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE JARRETT, RYAN A 1748 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 12, 2024
18659396 CONTROLLER FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE BOOTH, ALEXANDER D 1749 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending May 09, 2024
18632367 ACTUATOR SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN 2834 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 11, 2024
18603254 GEAR MOTOR TRUONG, THOMAS 2834 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 13, 2024
18597958 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET DEVICE FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 2838 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 07, 2024
18440859 CONTROL DEVICE OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE DERUSSO, JOHN J 1744 §103§112 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 13, 2024
18437586 MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE DUNN, DARRIN D 2117 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 09, 2024
18396479 DISPLAY DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE AND WORK MACHINE CHIU, WESLEY JASON 2639 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 26, 2023
18394935 CRANE OPERATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND CRANE CAMPOS JR, JUAN J 3654 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 22, 2023
18390571 SHOVEL CHOI, MICHAEL W 2116 §102 Final Rejection Pending Dec 20, 2023
18525745 CONTROL DEVICE OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE MELENDEZ, ARMAND 1759 §102§103Other Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18525741 LINEAR MOTOR, POSITIONING DEVICE, PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD CHANG, MINKI 2834 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 30, 2023
18525743 DISPLAY UNIT OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, CONTROL DEVICE OF INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE, AND INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE XU, PETER 2119 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 30, 2023
18521178 SHOVEL CONTROL DEVICE AND SHOVEL LEE, SANGKYUNG 2858 §101§103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18497262 SHOVEL AND SHOVEL CONTROL SYSTEM PANDE, ASHUTOSH 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Oct 30, 2023
18490853 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE LI, HELEN 3665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 20, 2023
18476310 STAGE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD BODNAR, JOHN A 2893 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 28, 2023
18475213 DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM TRAN, VI N 2117 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2023
18474633 SHOVEL AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR SHOVEL AN, IG TAI 3662 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18461852 WORK MACHINE AND WORK MACHINE SUPPORT SYSTEM SHOHATEE, IBRAHIM NAGI 2857 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 06, 2023
18460571 DISPLAY UNIT, CONTROL DEVICE, AND INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE SWIER, WAYNE K. 1748 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 03, 2023
18365895 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE ALAM, ROKEYA SHAWALI 2118 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 04, 2023
18365882 INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE GROSSO, GREGORY CHAD 1748 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 04, 2023
18331199 MOLDING SYSTEM THONG, YEONG JUEN 3761 §103§112 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jun 08, 2023
18324303 FORMING APPARATUS LOWE, MICHAEL S 3652 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending May 26, 2023
18320530 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM SHIN, ANDREW 2612 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending May 19, 2023
18298356 SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM KADING, JOSHUA A §101§102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 10, 2023
18295832 SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM DRAPEAU, SIMEON PAUL §101§102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 04, 2023
18188458 PARTICLE BEAM IRRADIATION APPARATUS LOGIE, MICHAEL J 2881 §102§103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Mar 23, 2023
17964872 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INCREASING TEMPERATURE THEREOF WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A 1735 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Oct 12, 2022
17929964 HEAT TREATMENT SYSTEM LAUX, DAVID J 3762 §103 Non-Final OA 70d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2022
17818486 DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L 2119 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 09, 2022
17881267 SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD 2188 §101§103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Aug 04, 2022
17833376 FORMING SYSTEM AND FORMING METHOD YOO, JUN S 3726 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 06, 2022
17831718 INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND DETERMINATION SYSTEM YANCHUS III, PAUL B 2115 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Jun 03, 2022
17645789 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF WORK MACHINE, MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF WORK MACHINE, WORKER'S TERMINAL DEVICE, CONSTRACTOR'S TERMINAL DEVICE WHITAKER, ANDREW B 3629 §101§103 Final Rejection 71d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2021

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