Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
14 pending office actions • 5 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
THE TORO Company currently manages 12 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 12 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is currently reviewing exactly one case. The workload spans 5 distinct art units, which suggests a diverse range of technical subject matter within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This distribution across 5 distinct art units requires familiarity with the specific procedural nuances of multiple administrative groups.
KUJUNDZIC, DINO is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, handling 1 of the pending actions. Because there are 12 pending office actions and 12 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed with no single examiner managing more than one case. Practitioners must navigate the preferences of 12 distinct examiners while coordinating across 5 distinct art units. This structure for 12 pending office actions indicates a decentralized prosecution process where each matter is reviewed independently by a different examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (29%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUJUNDZIC, DINO | 1 | 73.7% | +27.7% |
| GOODBODY, JOAN T | 1 | 51.2% | +36.2% |
| DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | 1 | 79.1% | +11.2% |
| PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | 1 | 85.2% | +10.1% |
| ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 1 | 85.5% | +11.0% |
| LEE, MATTHEW D | 1 | 89.2% | +5.8% |
| MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 1 | 74.6% | +11.3% |
| SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 1 | 51.3% | +40.0% |
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.6% | +34.5% |
| LUSK, AUDREY L | 1 | 68.7% | +24.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18816137 | WALK POWER MOWER WITH TRANSMISSION PROVIDING BOTH FORWARD AND REVERSE PROPULSION | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
| 18737634 | TWO-PIECE AXIAL-SPLIT WHEEL | LEE, MATTHEW D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18237085 | ELECTRIC SNOWTHROWER WITH ADAPTIVE MOTOR AND CONTROLS FOR USE WITH SAME | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 76d |
| 19170450 | TURF AERATOR | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | — |
| 18871299 | LAWN MOWER HEIGHT-OF-CUT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRAL STRIPING ROLLER | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 18693764 | MULTI-TRANSITIONAL EMITTER FOR DRIP IRRIGATION | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18480688 | SNOWTHROWER SCRAPER | LUSK, AUDREY L | — |
| 18024859 | COMPACT UTILITY LOADER WITH SYNCHRONIZED LIFT AND EXTENSION OF WORKING TOOL ATTACHMENT | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | — |
| 18010419 | TURF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170450 | TURF AERATOR | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | — |
| 19109651 | BOUNDARY DEFINITION FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE WORK REGION | GOODBODY, JOAN T | — |
| 19042863 | HIGH LIFT UTILITY VEHICLE | DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | — |
| 18871299 | LAWN MOWER HEIGHT-OF-CUT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRAL STRIPING ROLLER | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — |
| 18816137 | WALK POWER MOWER WITH TRANSMISSION PROVIDING BOTH FORWARD AND REVERSE PROPULSION | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
| 18661350 | ROTOR FOR SNOW THROWER | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | — |
| 18694075 | DRIP IRRIGATION EMITTER WITH OUTLET SUSPENSION FEATURE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | — |
| 18693764 | MULTI-TRANSITIONAL EMITTER FOR DRIP IRRIGATION | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 3 |
| 3752 | 2 |
| 3652 | 2 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19170450 | TURF AERATOR | KUJUNDZIC, DINO | — | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19109651 | BOUNDARY DEFINITION FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE WORK REGION | GOODBODY, JOAN T | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19042863 | HIGH LIFT UTILITY VEHICLE | DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 18871299 | LAWN MOWER HEIGHT-OF-CUT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRAL STRIPING ROLLER | PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18816137 | WALK POWER MOWER WITH TRANSMISSION PROVIDING BOTH FORWARD AND REVERSE PROPULSION | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18737634 | TWO-PIECE AXIAL-SPLIT WHEEL | LEE, MATTHEW D | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18661350 | ROTOR FOR SNOW THROWER | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 3671 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18694075 | DRIP IRRIGATION EMITTER WITH OUTLET SUSPENSION FEATURE | SCHWARTZ, KEVIN EDWARD | 3752 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
| 18693764 | MULTI-TRANSITIONAL EMITTER FOR DRIP IRRIGATION | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18480688 | SNOWTHROWER SCRAPER | LUSK, AUDREY L | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18237085 | ELECTRIC SNOWTHROWER WITH ADAPTIVE MOTOR AND CONTROLS FOR USE WITH SAME | BREGEL, EVAN ANTHONY | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 76d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18024859 | COMPACT UTILITY LOADER WITH SYNCHRONIZED LIFT AND EXTENSION OF WORKING TOOL ATTACHMENT | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18010419 | TURF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 2116 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2022 |
| 17200436 | STAND-ON OR WALK-BEHIND UTILITY LOADER WITH VARIABLE LENGTH LIFT ARM ASSEMBLY | RODRIGUEZ, SAUL | 3652 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2021 |
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