Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Beijingwest Industries Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 pending matters are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, indicating a broad range of individual perspectives on the company's applications. All active matters are currently assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing a high degree of technical concentration at the group level within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WILLIAMS, THOMAS J, who is handling 1 pending office action. Given that there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner responsible for one action. The fact that all 5 pending office actions are within 1 distinct art unit suggests that prosecution outcomes will be heavily influenced by the specific policies and trends of that single unit, despite the involvement of 5 distinct examiners.
Practitioners should focus on the 1 distinct art unit to identify common rejection themes or allowance patterns that might affect the 5 pending office actions. While WILLIAMS, THOMAS J is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, the uniform distribution across the examiners means that no single individual's style dominates the portfolio. However, the shared environment of the 1 distinct art unit remains the most significant factor for the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
| SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 85.5% | +6.2% |
| ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | 1 | 87.8% | +10.6% |
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18766662 | HYDRAULIC COMPRESSION STOP WITH NECKED-DOWN CYLINDER TUBE | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18461365 | LASER HARDENING LOW-CARBON STEEL DAMPER TUBES | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 6d |
| 18967590 | AIR-SLEEVE WITH HYBRID CORD ANGLES | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| 18887032 | SUSPENSION HYDRAULIC LIFT ACTUATOR | SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| 18767967 | LOW-PRESSURE MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPER | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967590 | AIR-SLEEVE WITH HYBRID CORD ANGLES | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| 18766662 | HYDRAULIC COMPRESSION STOP WITH NECKED-DOWN CYLINDER TUBE | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967590 | AIR-SLEEVE WITH HYBRID CORD ANGLES | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18887032 | SUSPENSION HYDRAULIC LIFT ACTUATOR | SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18767967 | LOW-PRESSURE MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPER | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18766662 | HYDRAULIC COMPRESSION STOP WITH NECKED-DOWN CYLINDER TUBE | RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18461365 | LASER HARDENING LOW-CARBON STEEL DAMPER TUBES | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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