Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
BORGWARNER EMISSIONS SYSTEMS SPAIN, S.L.U. has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing substantial examiner distribution within a more concentrated art-unit structure. LING, FOR K. is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions.
The difference between the pending matter count and the examiner count indicates repeated examiner assignments, while the lower art-unit count indicates additional grouping by examination environment. Counsel should track examiner-specific handling for recurring assignments and use art-unit groupings to identify broader technical or procedural patterns. The profile supports coordinated monitoring at the art-unit level, but response drafting should still account for the distinct examiner relationships represented in the docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 4 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LING, FOR K. | 2 | 53.7% | +18.6% |
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 54.0% | +27.2% |
| CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.7% | +13.9% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.5% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378822 | Heating Plate | KIM, SANG K | 36d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18653237 | HEATING ROD | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18378822 | Heating Plate | KIM, SANG K | 36d overdue |
| 18442128 | COLLECTOR FOR HEAT EXCHANGE TUBE | LING, FOR K. | 19d |
| 18442136 | HEAT EXCHANGE TUBE | LANE, DEVON | 29d |
| 18668295 | HEAT EXCHANGER FOR COOLING ONE OR MORE ELECTRICAL OR ELECTRONIC DEVICES | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 34d |
| 18376627 | Heat Exchanger | LING, FOR K. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 4 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668295 | HEAT EXCHANGER FOR COOLING ONE OR MORE ELECTRICAL OR ELECTRONIC DEVICES | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18653237 | HEATING ROD | CHAMBERS, JOHN MICHAEL | 3761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18442136 | HEAT EXCHANGE TUBE | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18442128 | COLLECTOR FOR HEAT EXCHANGE TUBE | LING, FOR K. | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
| 18378822 | Heating Plate | KIM, SANG K | 3745 | §102 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2023 |
| 18376627 | Heat Exchanger | LING, FOR K. | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBORGWARNER EMISSIONS SYSTEMS SPAIN, S.L.U. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 5 examiners.
For K. Ling has the most, with 2 of BORGWARNER EMISSIONS SYSTEMS SPAIN, S.L.U.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
