Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tadano Ltd. is currently navigating 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 4 distinct examiners and are located across 3 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company is engaging with a variety of examination teams, which helps to diversify their prosecution risk. The presence of 4 distinct examiners for only 4 pending office actions indicates that no two cases are being handled by the same person, ensuring that each application receives an independent review.
CHIN, PAUL T is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 4 pending office actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with each examiner managing a single case. The fact that these cases are spread across 3 distinct art units suggests some technical overlap, as at least two of the 4 pending office actions are likely being reviewed within the same art unit. For the practitioner, this means that while the examiners are different, there may be shared prior art or examination trends within those 3 distinct art units that could affect the portfolio's overall outcome.
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 only | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHIN, PAUL T | 1 | 71.4% | +15.8% |
| JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | 1 | 81.9% | +15.8% |
| AN, IG TAI | 1 | 56.9% | +24.7% |
| MEINECKE DIAZ, SUSANNA M | 1 | 30.7% | +20.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
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