Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Arrival Ltd. is pursuing patent protection in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions, which are distributed across 2 distinct examiners. This distribution shows that the company's current patent applications are being evaluated independently by different individuals at the patent office.
The prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a breadth of technical focus within the materials field. ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents exactly half of the 2 pending office actions currently on record for the company.
Practitioners should note that the involvement of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a flexible prosecution strategy. While ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM handles 1 pending matter, the other action is subject to the standards of a different examiner and art unit. This structure means the company must maintain consistency across 2 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials sector.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1 | 69.0% | +6.5% |
| CULLEN, TANNER L | 1 | 71.8% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18014206 | A BATTERY MODULE AND A VEHICLE | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17348988 | ROBOTIC PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT FOR VEHICLES | CULLEN, TANNER L | 121d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1725 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18014206 | A BATTERY MODULE AND A VEHICLE | ESTES, JONATHAN WILLIAM | 1725 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 17348988 | ROBOTIC PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT FOR VEHICLES | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 121d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2021 |
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