Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BH Electrics LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the personnel vary, the technical classification of the applications remains consistent across the portfolio. The concentration in 1 art unit implies that the company's innovations are being evaluated by a single specialized group within the patent office.
The busiest examiner assigned to the portfolio is CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J, who is handling 1 pending office action. This 1 action is among the 2 total pending actions for the company. The presence of 2 examiners within 1 art unit means that the company may encounter different interpretive styles despite the shared technical focus of the unit. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 separate prosecution timelines, even though the 2 actions are being reviewed within the same administrative and technical framework of 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | 1 | 79.6% | +19.8% |
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.3% | +12.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328326 | Electric Motor Drive Train Conversion Assembly | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 31d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18328326 | Electric Motor Drive Train Conversion Assembly | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 31d overdue |
| 18526886 | Modular Battery Enclosure | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18526886 | Modular Battery Enclosure | CHMIELECKI, SCOTT J | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18328326 | Electric Motor Drive Train Conversion Assembly | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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