Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Autotech Engineering S L maintains 2 pending office actions focused in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Although these matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners, they are consolidated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a technical focus for the portfolio's current filings, even as different individuals review the applications.
The busiest examiner, O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES, is currently assigned 1 pending action. This indicates that the workload is divided equally between the 2 distinct examiners. For the practitioner, the use of 1 distinct art unit may allow for a unified strategy regarding prior art and examiner tendencies within that specific group, despite the involvement of multiple examiners like O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES. Having both actions in the unit provides a centralized point for understanding the technical standards applied to the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings. This structure may simplify the management of the 2 pending office actions by limiting the variety of art unit policies the company must navigate.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 79.1% | +22.9% |
| PAPE, JOSEPH | 1 | 88.3% | +3.8% |
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.0% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19099926 | A VEHICLE STRUCTURE | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112742 | UNITARY REAR RAIL STRUCTURE FOR A VEHICLE AND METHODS | O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 9d overdue |
| 19067104 | VEHICLE STRUCTURE | PAPE, JOSEPH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19112742 | UNITARY REAR RAIL STRUCTURE FOR A VEHICLE AND METHODS | O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3614 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19112742 | UNITARY REAR RAIL STRUCTURE FOR A VEHICLE AND METHODS | O'NEILL, MATTHEW JAMES | 3614 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19067104 | VEHICLE STRUCTURE | PAPE, JOSEPH | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19099926 | A VEHICLE STRUCTURE | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
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