Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Terex South Dakota Inc. currently has 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct art units. The company is working with 7 distinct examiners to advance these applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles a portion of the 8 total pending actions. The presence of 5 art units suggests that the portfolio covers several different mechanical sub-sectors. Because 7 distinct examiners are involved, practitioners should be prepared for a variety of examination styles across the pending matters.
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 + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (89%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3 | 62.6% | +64.1% |
| NGUYEN, HOANG M | 1 | 75.8% | +16.3% |
| PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 1 | 45.5% | +27.3% |
| TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 1 | 83.1% | +25.7% |
| TRAN, DIEM M | 1 | 80.0% | +13.4% |
| HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 1 | 61.4% | +22.4% |
| WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | 1 | 71.2% | +10.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17887014 | ACCESS DECK ASSEMBLY AND HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN AERIAL WORK PLATFORM OF A VEHICLE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 9d |
| 18921330 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOBILE WORK PLATFORMS | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 36d |
| 19429275 | LIFT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ON A GRADE | NGUYEN, HOANG M | — |
| 18897631 | LIFT DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING SCISSOR LINKAGE | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | — |
| 18605327 | LOCKING MECHANISM | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | — |
| 18593237 | LIFT DEVICE | TRAN, DIEM M | — |
| 18593697 | KNOB MECHANISM | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | — |
| 18497317 | BATTERY SYSTEM AND INSULATOR FOR A BATTERY SYSTEM | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17887014 | ACCESS DECK ASSEMBLY AND HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN AERIAL WORK PLATFORM OF A VEHICLE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 9d |
| 18921330 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOBILE WORK PLATFORMS | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 36d |
| 19429275 | LIFT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ON A GRADE | NGUYEN, HOANG M | — |
| 18897631 | LIFT DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING SCISSOR LINKAGE | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | — |
| 18605327 | LOCKING MECHANISM | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | — |
| 18593237 | LIFT DEVICE | TRAN, DIEM M | — |
| 18593697 | KNOB MECHANISM | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | — |
| 18497317 | BATTERY SYSTEM AND INSULATOR FOR A BATTERY SYSTEM | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 4 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19429275 | LIFT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ON A GRADE | NGUYEN, HOANG M | 3746 | §101§102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2025 |
| 18921330 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOBILE WORK PLATFORMS | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18897631 | LIFT DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING SCISSOR LINKAGE | PEZZLO, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18605327 | LOCKING MECHANISM | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 3655 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18593237 | LIFT DEVICE | TRAN, DIEM M | 3647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18593697 | KNOB MECHANISM | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 3636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18497317 | BATTERY SYSTEM AND INSULATOR FOR A BATTERY SYSTEM | WYLUDA, KIMBERLY | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
| 17887014 | ACCESS DECK ASSEMBLY AND HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR AN AERIAL WORK PLATFORM OF A VEHICLE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
| 17502541 | SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOBILE WORK PLATFORMS | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2021 |
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