Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Asfinag Maut Service GmbH is navigating 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the communication process between the applicant and the office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending claims are situated within a specific technical domain, requiring a focused approach to examination standards. This concentration of activity suggests that the company is currently focusing its intellectual property efforts on a single core innovation.
RHEE, ROY B is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the entirety of the company's active office actions, this examiner's perspective is the most significant factor in the current prosecution. Success for the 1 pending matter will depend on a strategy that addresses the specific concerns raised by this examiner within the single art unit. Understanding the examiner's typical requirements for 1 pending action can help streamline the path to allowance.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEE, ROY B | 1 | 69.8% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18183431 | Concept For Supporting a Motor Vehicle Being Guided in at Least Partially Automated Manner | RHEE, ROY B | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18183431 | Concept For Supporting a Motor Vehicle Being Guided in at Least Partially Automated Manner | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
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