Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aisin (Suzhou) Technical Center Co. Ltd. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a specific technical focus for their current filings despite the involvement of 3 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that while the subject matter remains consistent across a single administrative unit, the prosecution workload is spread among multiple officials. Practitioners should note that the technical consistency of the art unit does not guarantee a uniform examiner experience across all applications.
LYJAK, LORI LYNN is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is responsible for a portion of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is decentralized. This arrangement requires a strategy that accounts for the specific preferences of different individuals even though they operate within the same 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners means that the workload is distributed among several individuals, requiring a broad approach to examiner engagement.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANIELS, JASON S | 1 | 85.7% | +15.1% |
| LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 1 | 89.9% | +8.6% |
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969515 | SUNROOF DEVICE | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18969556 | DEFLECTOR DEVICE AND SUNROOF DEVICE | DANIELS, JASON S | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958858 | DOOR LOCK DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 75d |
| 18969556 | DEFLECTOR DEVICE AND SUNROOF DEVICE | DANIELS, JASON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969556 | DEFLECTOR DEVICE AND SUNROOF DEVICE | DANIELS, JASON S | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18969515 | SUNROOF DEVICE | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18958858 | DOOR LOCK DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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