Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Automotive Research & Testing Center has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to navigate different sets of examiner preferences and styles. Each examiner likely brings a unique perspective to the automotive technologies under review.
The pending office actions are located in distinct art units, indicating that the technical subject matter of the cases is likely distinct. ZHU, NOAH YI MIN is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for the pending actions, the portfolio is fully dispersed across the patent office's administrative structure. This means each pending case is being prosecuted in its own unique technical and regulatory context.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +14.5% |
| MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 1 | 48.9% | +35.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18535792 | SENSOR FUSION AND OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 9d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18535792 | SENSOR FUSION AND OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 9d overdue |
| 18139505 | HYDROGEN TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING SYSTEM, REFRIGERATED CONTAINING DEVICE, AND DIVISIONAL TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE REFRIGERATED CONTAINING DEVICE | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18535792 | SENSOR FUSION AND OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18139505 | HYDROGEN TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING SYSTEM, REFRIGERATED CONTAINING DEVICE, AND DIVISIONAL TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING METHOD FOR THE REFRIGERATED CONTAINING DEVICE | MOORE, DEVON TYLEN | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
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