Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Väderstad Holding AB is managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different official. While there are 3 distinct examiners involved, the portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, indicating some overlap in the technical categories being pursued by the company.
The busiest examiner for the company is MITCHELL, JOEL F, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split among the officials. The fact that 3 distinct examiners are operating within 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is navigating multiple reviews within a limited set of technical groups. This structure requires the company to manage 3 separate examiner interactions while addressing the technical requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved in the current prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MITCHELL, JOEL F | 1 | 61.1% | +17.0% |
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
| NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 1 | 55.2% | +42.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034130 | Agricultural Implement for Soil Working and Method of Determining Working Depth of Soil Working Agricultural Implement | NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 26d overdue |
| 18851824 | Agricultural Implements and Methods of Folding Agricultural Implements | MITCHELL, JOEL F | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18034130 | Agricultural Implement for Soil Working and Method of Determining Working Depth of Soil Working Agricultural Implement | NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 26d overdue |
| 18548643 | AN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT, A COMPUTER PROGRAM, A COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AIRFLOW IN A FEED SYSTEM FOR AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT OF THE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 30d |
| 18851824 | Agricultural Implements and Methods of Folding Agricultural Implements | MITCHELL, JOEL F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851824 | Agricultural Implements and Methods of Folding Agricultural Implements | MITCHELL, JOEL F | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18548643 | AN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT, A COMPUTER PROGRAM, A COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AIRFLOW IN A FEED SYSTEM FOR AN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT OF THE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18034130 | Agricultural Implement for Soil Working and Method of Determining Working Depth of Soil Working Agricultural Implement | NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 3666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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