Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Brose Schliesssysteme GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each matter is handled by a different individual. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical and transportation filings are divided between two technical groups. This structure suggests a focused but split technical scope for the current pending actions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WILLIAMS, MARK A, who manages 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the busiest examiner only has 1 action, the 5 pending office actions are evenly spread across the 5 distinct examiners. Practitioners will need to interact with 5 different examiners across 2 distinct art units. The data highlights a prosecution environment where each pending matter involves a unique examiner assignment. This lack of examiner overlap across the 5 pending office actions means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to each individual examiner's history.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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, MARK A | 1 | 77.8% | +13.2% |
| HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | 1 | 74.0% | +27.5% |
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
| GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 1 | 50.0% | +47.0% |
| IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 81.4% | -5.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267627 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 27d |
| 19175361 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | WILLIAMS, MARK A | — |
| 18996692 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | — |
| 18801132 | EMERGENCY DEVICE FOR A STORAGE COMPARTMENT OF A VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943303 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 20d |
| 19175361 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | WILLIAMS, MARK A | — |
| 18996692 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | — |
| 18801132 | EMERGENCY DEVICE FOR A STORAGE COMPARTMENT OF A VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 4 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19175361 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | WILLIAMS, MARK A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18996692 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | 3675 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18943303 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18801132 | EMERGENCY DEVICE FOR A STORAGE COMPARTMENT OF A VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18267627 | MOTOR VEHICLE LOCK | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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