Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Tadano Ltd.

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

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.

3
Hard (50%)
3
Medium (50%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (17%)
§103 only3 (50%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (33%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
83% of docket
1
Business / Other
17% 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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
CHIN, PAUL T 1 71.5% +15.6%
JOHNS, HILARY LYNN 1 81.8% +15.9%
AN, IG TAI 1 56.8% +24.7%
AUNG, SAN M 1 77.7% +20.4%
MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 1 30.6% +20.9%
HEIM, MARK ROBERT 1 54.2% -1.3%

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17796784 PERFORMANCE INFORMATION SERVER, WORK MACHINE DISPLAY OPERATION APPLICATION, METHOD FOR PROVIDING MODEL INFORMATION, METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MODEL INFORMATION, AND MODEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 68d
18871817 CRANE JOHNS, HILARY LYNN
18528332 MOUNT FOR WORK VEHICLE AND WORK VEHICLE AUNG, SAN M

Interview Candidates (5)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18710207 MANEUVERING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND WORK VEHICLE AN, IG TAI 35d
17796784 PERFORMANCE INFORMATION SERVER, WORK MACHINE DISPLAY OPERATION APPLICATION, METHOD FOR PROVIDING MODEL INFORMATION, METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MODEL INFORMATION, AND MODEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 68d
18872292 CRANE CHIN, PAUL T
18871817 CRANE JOHNS, HILARY LYNN
18528332 MOUNT FOR WORK VEHICLE AND WORK VEHICLE AUNG, SAN M

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3654 1
3662 1
3616 1
3625 1
3668 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18872292 CRANE CHIN, PAUL T 3654 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2024
18871817 CRANE JOHNS, HILARY LYNN §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2024
18710207 MANEUVERING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND WORK VEHICLE AN, IG TAI 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 35d Pending May 15, 2024
18528332 MOUNT FOR WORK VEHICLE AND WORK VEHICLE AUNG, SAN M 3616 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2023
17796784 PERFORMANCE INFORMATION SERVER, WORK MACHINE DISPLAY OPERATION APPLICATION, METHOD FOR PROVIDING MODEL INFORMATION, METHOD FOR ACQUIRING MODEL INFORMATION, AND MODEL INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M 3625 §101 Final Rejection 68d Pending Aug 01, 2022
17298376 WORK VEHICLE HEIM, MARK ROBERT 3668 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 28, 2021

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