Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
China Automotive Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow distribution of active matters. This concentration within 1 art unit suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technical niche within the broader transportation sector. Having 1 pending office action allows for a targeted prosecution strategy without the requirement of managing multiple conflicting examiner requirements simultaneously.
WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B serves as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual manages the company's full set of 1 pending office action, centralizing the prosecution process within a single administrative channel. Since the busiest examiner pending count matches the total number of pending office actions, the outcome of the company's current patent applications rests with WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific examination style of this 1 examiner, as there are no other distinct examiners or art units involved in the portfolio's active cases at this time.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 54.0% | +34.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17887103 | ELECTRIC STEERING ASSEMBLIES FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES | WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17887103 | ELECTRIC STEERING ASSEMBLIES FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES | WEHRLY, CHRISTOPHER B | 3611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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