Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Adient US LLC has 8 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket spans 7 examiners and 4 art units, showing broad examiner distribution with some concentration at the art-unit level.
THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN is the busiest examiner, handling 2 pending matters. The remaining matters are distributed across other examiners, so prosecution planning should combine portfolio-level oversight with examiner-specific review. The four-art-unit footprint also supports consistent technical positioning where applications share related subject matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 2 | 77.3% | +29.4% |
| BEMKO, TARAS P | 1 | 84.4% | +19.2% |
| FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD | 1 | 79.0% | +3.1% |
| BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 81.9% | +7.2% |
| GABLER, PHILIP F | 1 | 72.9% | +23.2% |
| LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 1 | 92.3% | +9.1% |
| DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | 1 | 72.4% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18590288 | VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 16d overdue |
| 18693204 | SEAT COMPONENT, SEAT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAT COMPONENT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 16d |
| 19105857 | COVERING DEVICE FOR COVERING A RAIL OF A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, AND VEHICLE SEAT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 19036178 | SEAT COVER FOR A SEAT AND SEAT WITH A SEAT CUSHION AND SUCH A SEAT COVER | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | — |
| 19012411 | OSCILLATING FRAMEWORK FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR AN OSCILLATING SEAT AND/OR UTILITY VEHICLE SEAT, AND A VEHICLE SEAT OF THIS TYPE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | — |
| 18989442 | SEAT ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING A VEHICLE SEAT TO A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND/OR VEHICLE FLOOR STRUCTURE, AND VEHICLE SEAT | FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD | — |
| 18937163 | FITTING FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, AND VEHICLE SEAT | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | — |
| 18566722 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ACTUATING LEVER FOR A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, AND ACTUATING LEVER, LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, AND VEHICLE SEAT | DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693204 | SEAT COMPONENT, SEAT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAT COMPONENT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 16d |
| 19105857 | COVERING DEVICE FOR COVERING A RAIL OF A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, AND VEHICLE SEAT | BEMKO, TARAS P | — |
| 19036178 | SEAT COVER FOR A SEAT AND SEAT WITH A SEAT CUSHION AND SUCH A SEAT COVER | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | — |
| 19012411 | OSCILLATING FRAMEWORK FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR AN OSCILLATING SEAT AND/OR UTILITY VEHICLE SEAT, AND A VEHICLE SEAT OF THIS TYPE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | — |
| 18566722 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ACTUATING LEVER FOR A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, AND ACTUATING LEVER, LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, AND VEHICLE SEAT | DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 5 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19105857 | COVERING DEVICE FOR COVERING A RAIL OF A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, AND VEHICLE SEAT | BEMKO, TARAS P | 3672 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19036178 | SEAT COVER FOR A SEAT AND SEAT WITH A SEAT CUSHION AND SUCH A SEAT COVER | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 3636 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19012411 | OSCILLATING FRAMEWORK FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR AN OSCILLATING SEAT AND/OR UTILITY VEHICLE SEAT, AND A VEHICLE SEAT OF THIS TYPE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18989442 | SEAT ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING A VEHICLE SEAT TO A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM AND/OR VEHICLE FLOOR STRUCTURE, AND VEHICLE SEAT | FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18937163 | FITTING FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, AND VEHICLE SEAT | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 3636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18693204 | SEAT COMPONENT, SEAT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAT COMPONENT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18590288 | VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 3636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18566722 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN ACTUATING LEVER FOR A LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, AND ACTUATING LEVER, LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER, AND VEHICLE SEAT | DUCKWORTH, BRADLEY | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialAdient US LLC has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 7 examiners.
Jessica Kathryn Thompson has the most, with 2 of Adient US LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
