Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aptera Motors Corp. is actively prosecuting its patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are currently 3 pending office actions, which represents the ongoing effort to protect the company's mechanical and transportation innovations. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, meaning that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different specialized group within the patent office. This distribution suggests that each application covers a distinct technical aspect of the company's technology.
The examination of these applications involves 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending action is handled by a separate individual. GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA is the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is currently managing 1 pending office action. With 3 examiners, 3 art units, and 3 pending actions, the prosecution workload is entirely decentralized. This structure requires a tailored approach for each of the 3 separate examiners and their respective art units to effectively address the specific technical requirements of each pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1 | 54.7% | +13.8% |
| DOLAK, JAMES M | 1 | 78.8% | +18.3% |
| RODRIGUEZ, SAUL | 1 | 44.3% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806656 | CURVED LAMINATED SOLAR PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 39d |
| 18499696 | PICK FLAT PLACE CURVED ASSEMBLY TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, SAUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806656 | CURVED LAMINATED SOLAR PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 39d |
| 18636648 | AERODYNAMIC HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A VEHICLE | DOLAK, JAMES M | — |
| 18499696 | PICK FLAT PLACE CURVED ASSEMBLY TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, SAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1721 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18806656 | CURVED LAMINATED SOLAR PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THEREOF | GONZALEZ RAMOS, MAYLA | 1721 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18636648 | AERODYNAMIC HEAT EXCHANGER FOR A VEHICLE | DOLAK, JAMES M | 3613 | §102§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18499696 | PICK FLAT PLACE CURVED ASSEMBLY TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD | RODRIGUEZ, SAUL | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2023 |
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