Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Autoliv ASP Inc. manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are highly distributed, as they are spread across 3 distinct art units and involve multiple examiners. This suggests that the company's communications-related technology is being reviewed by several specialized groups within the patent office, each with its own set of departmental standards. The lack of concentration in a single art unit indicates a broad technological footprint within the Communications sector.
Examiner RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This shows that each of the active actions is being handled by a different official, as there are 3 distinct examiners involved in total. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate different sets of examiner preferences and the specific nuances of the various art units simultaneously. This decentralized structure means that success in one application may not necessarily predict the outcome in others, requiring a customized approach for each pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R | 1 | 81.8% | +7.3% |
| GILES, EBONI N | 1 | 63.3% | +8.3% |
| FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1 | 51.9% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18763506 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING UNOBSTRUCTED VEHICLE LABELS | RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17886536 | COOL BURNING GAS GENERANT FORMULATION FOR AN AIRBAG WITH LOW BURN RATE SLOPE | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2683 | 1 |
| 2622 | 1 |
| 1734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18763506 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING UNOBSTRUCTED VEHICLE LABELS | RODRIGUEZGONZALEZ, LENNIN R | 2683 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18104702 | AUTOMOTIVE PROTECTIVE DEVICE TRACKING | GILES, EBONI N | 2622 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 17886536 | COOL BURNING GAS GENERANT FORMULATION FOR AN AIRBAG WITH LOW BURN RATE SLOPE | FELTON, AILEEN BAKER | 1734 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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