Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd. manages 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These filings are split across 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse technical focus for their current applications. The use of multiple art units suggests that the company's innovations span different specialized examination groups at the patent office. This technical variety requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the specific standards of 2 distinct art units.
The prosecution involves distinct examiners. GUNN, JEREMY L is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the workload is divided among the assigned officials. Such a split prevents any single examiner from becoming a bottleneck for the company's transportation-related intellectual property. The presence of multiple examiners also provides the company with different perspectives on their technical disclosures. Each of the 2 pending office actions is thus subject to an independent review process by a different official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUNN, JEREMY L | 1 | 30.1% | +45.8% |
| SADLON, JOSEPH | 1 | 63.4% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744567 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | GUNN, JEREMY L | 50d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744567 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | GUNN, JEREMY L | 50d overdue |
| 18257174 | ANCHORING DEVICE AND PRESTRESSED CONCRETE | SADLON, JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18744567 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | GUNN, JEREMY L | 3624 | §101 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18257174 | ANCHORING DEVICE AND PRESTRESSED CONCRETE | SADLON, JOSEPH | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialSumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jeremy L Gunn has the most, with 1 of Sumitomo Mitsui Construction 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.
