Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
American Axle & Manufacturing Inc. is managing 6 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are concentrated in 2 distinct art units, suggesting a focused range of technical subject matter. The portfolio involves 6 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for exactly one of the 6 pending actions. This distribution requires the company to manage 6 separate examiner relationships simultaneously.
MOK, ALEX W is listed as the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that while the technology area is consistent, the company must engage with a different examiner for every active case. The concentration of 6 actions into only 2 art units may allow for some consistency in broader examination trends despite the variety of individual examiners. However, the presence of 6 distinct examiners means that specific prosecution tactics must be adapted to different individual styles. Managing these pending office actions across 2 art units requires a balanced approach to technical and procedural consistency with 1 pending office action per 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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOK, ALEX W | 1 | 74.3% | +20.8% |
| ELNAKIB, AHMED | 1 | 78.6% | +8.7% |
| MATES, ROBERT E | 1 | 57.0% | +35.0% |
| NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.7% | +28.8% |
| ANDERSON, AMBER R | 1 | 32.6% | +34.0% |
| STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 1 | 75.5% | -3.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18750015 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | MATES, ROBERT E | 7d |
| 18792733 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND STATOR COOLING APPARATUS | ELNAKIB, AHMED | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18750015 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | MATES, ROBERT E | 7d |
| 18880134 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | MOK, ALEX W | — |
| 18671004 | VEHICLE DRIVELINE COMPONENT HAVING A SENSOR-LESS ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR SYSTEM | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18539738 | RESISTANCE WELDED ASSEMBLY FIXTURE | ANDERSON, AMBER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 3 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18880134 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | MOK, ALEX W | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18792733 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND STATOR COOLING APPARATUS | ELNAKIB, AHMED | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18750015 | ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | MATES, ROBERT E | 2834 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18671004 | VEHICLE DRIVELINE COMPONENT HAVING A SENSOR-LESS ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUATOR SYSTEM | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18539738 | RESISTANCE WELDED ASSEMBLY FIXTURE | ANDERSON, AMBER R | 3678 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18373663 | END TURN COOLING ASSEMBLY | STOUT, RILEY OWEN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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