Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Volvo Construction Equipment AB

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
1
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

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.

1
Hard (8%)
10
Medium (83%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (8%)
§103 only9 (75%)
§102 only1 (8%)
§112 only1 (8%)

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
12
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MILLER, PRESTON JAY 1 58.5% +22.3%
BAILEY, JOHN D 1 77.8% +17.5%
KLEINMAN, LAIL A 1 69.1% +17.4%
KASTURE, DNYANESH G 1 48.5% +27.4%
HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME 1 42.9% -41.7%
MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL 1 67.0% +12.1%
YANG, WENYUAN 1 68.6% +17.5%
FREEDMAN, LAURA 1 87.1% +1.3%
TRAN, ZOE T 1 56.7% +48.3%
ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 1 58.8% +21.7%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18477133 WORKING MACHINE WITH A FRAME STRUCTURE CONTROLLED EMERGENCY STOP ACTUATOR FREEDMAN, LAURA 37d overdue

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18815983 DUMP TRUCK KLEINMAN, LAIL A 46d overdue

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18815983 DUMP TRUCK KLEINMAN, LAIL A 46d overdue
18268486 EXCAVATOR AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING EXCAVATOR ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 17d overdue
18603408 ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC APPARATUS KASTURE, DNYANESH G 15d overdue
18214633 Stair system for a working machine, working machine TRAN, ZOE T 3d overdue
18973203 FLUID-BASED SUSPENSION SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE BAILEY, JOHN D 6d
18975095 METHOD FOR OPERATING A WORKING MACHINE, A WORKING MACHINE AND A CONTROLLER MILLER, PRESTON JAY 15d
18528918 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SPEED OF A VEHICLE, CONTROL UNIT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, BRAKE SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE YANG, WENYUAN 16d
18393976 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DUMPING PROCEDURE MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL 27d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3668 2
3661 1
3747 1
3746 1
3664 1
3666 1
3667 1
3614 1
3647 1
3745 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18975095 METHOD FOR OPERATING A WORKING MACHINE, A WORKING MACHINE AND A CONTROLLER MILLER, PRESTON JAY 3661 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 10, 2024
18973203 FLUID-BASED SUSPENSION SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE BAILEY, JOHN D 3747 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 09, 2024
18815983 DUMP TRUCK KLEINMAN, LAIL A 3668 §101 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Aug 27, 2024
18603408 ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING ELECTRO-HYDRAULIC APPARATUS KASTURE, DNYANESH G 3746 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18574512 AN ON-BOARD CONTROL UNIT, AN OFF-BOARD CONTROL STATION AND METHODS THEREIN FOR ENABLING A SAFE OPERATION OF A VEHICLE HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME 3664 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18393976 COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DUMPING PROCEDURE MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18528918 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SPEED OF A VEHICLE, CONTROL UNIT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, BRAKE SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE YANG, WENYUAN 3667 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18477133 WORKING MACHINE WITH A FRAME STRUCTURE CONTROLLED EMERGENCY STOP ACTUATOR FREEDMAN, LAURA 3614 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18214633 Stair system for a working machine, working machine TRAN, ZOE T 3647 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Jun 27, 2023
18268486 EXCAVATOR AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING EXCAVATOR ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18200895 GAS CONSUMER SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE COLLINS, DANIEL S. 3745 §112 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending May 23, 2023
17801882 ARTICULATED WORKING MACHINE VEHICLE WEISBERG, AMY REGINA 3612 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2022

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