Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
17 pending office actions • 13 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
ClearMotion Inc. currently faces 17 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 17 actions are assigned to 17 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. This distribution between pending office actions and distinct examiners suggests a lack of examiner concentration.
The prosecution activity is spread across 13 distinct art units. LOUIE, WAE LENNY is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which is the same count as every other examiner in this portfolio. The distribution across 13 distinct art units indicates that the company's mechanical and transportation technologies are being reviewed by several different specialized groups. Managing 17 distinct examiners across 13 distinct art units requires a strategy that accounts for a wide variety of examination perspectives within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This decentralized approach ensures that the company's patent outcomes are not dependent on any single examiner's review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 7 (41%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (35%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIE, WAE LENNY | 1 | 84.8% | +7.8% |
| SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | 1 | 85.5% | +6.2% |
| KWON, JOHN | 1 | 85.5% | -3.6% |
| YANG, JAMES J | 1 | 57.0% | +22.1% |
| BAILEY, JOHN D | 1 | 78.9% | +17.2% |
| HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 1 | 55.6% | -3.6% |
| MERINO, JOHN CHIANG | 1 | 73.1% | +25.5% |
| MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 1 | 89.6% | +9.1% |
| SAHNI, VISHAL R | 1 | 75.4% | +18.9% |
| PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY | 1 | 69.6% | +8.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643878 | ACCUMULATORS FOR A DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM | MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 139d overdue |
| 19216035 | ACTIVE VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM | LOUIE, WAE LENNY | — |
| 18936494 | THROUGH TUBE ACTIVE SUSPENSION ACTUATOR | SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | — |
| 18839607 | ESTIMATION OF A COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION FOR A SURFACE RELATIVE TO ONE OR MORE TIRES IN CONTACT WITH THE SURFACE | KWON, JOHN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18267912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAD FEATURE DETECTION | PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY | 86d overdue |
| 18037828 | COLLABORATIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS | HANNAN, B M M | 26d |
| 18729574 | MAINTAINING VEHICLE ANONYMITY DURING CLOUD-SUPPORTED VEHICLE LOCALIZATION AND CONTROL | YANG, JAMES J | 48d |
| 18727475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUT SATURATION AVOIDANCE IN PREVIEW-BASED VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL | BAILEY, JOHN D | — |
| 18724462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | — |
| 18712308 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE | MERINO, JOHN CHIANG | — |
| 17920628 | TERRAIN-BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | — |
| 16485927 | ACTIVE FORCE CANCELLATION AT STRUCTURAL INTERFACES | ELARABI, TAREK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18418996 | DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM WITH AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN PUMP AND VALVE CONTROLLED HYDRAULIC PUMP BYPASS FLOW PATH | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 100d overdue |
| 18729574 | MAINTAINING VEHICLE ANONYMITY DURING CLOUD-SUPPORTED VEHICLE LOCALIZATION AND CONTROL | YANG, JAMES J | 48d |
| 18727475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUT SATURATION AVOIDANCE IN PREVIEW-BASED VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL | BAILEY, JOHN D | — |
| 18712308 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE | MERINO, JOHN CHIANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 3 |
| 3661 | 2 |
| 3616 | 2 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2151 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19216035 | ACTIVE VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEM | LOUIE, WAE LENNY | 3661 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 18936494 | THROUGH TUBE ACTIVE SUSPENSION ACTUATOR | SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P | 3616 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18839607 | ESTIMATION OF A COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION FOR A SURFACE RELATIVE TO ONE OR MORE TIRES IN CONTACT WITH THE SURFACE | KWON, JOHN | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18729574 | MAINTAINING VEHICLE ANONYMITY DURING CLOUD-SUPPORTED VEHICLE LOCALIZATION AND CONTROL | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18727475 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUT SATURATION AVOIDANCE IN PREVIEW-BASED VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL | BAILEY, JOHN D | 3747 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18724462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 3668 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18712308 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE | MERINO, JOHN CHIANG | 3669 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18643878 | ACCUMULATORS FOR A DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM | MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 3614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 139d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18418996 | DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM WITH AN ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN PUMP AND VALVE CONTROLLED HYDRAULIC PUMP BYPASS FLOW PATH | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 100d overdue | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18267912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAD FEATURE DETECTION | PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY | 3667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 86d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18037828 | COLLABORATIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS | HANNAN, B M M | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 17920628 | TERRAIN-BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND CONTROL | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 2151 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2022 |
| 17787679 | PROACTIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS | SHARMA, SHIVAM | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
| 17775567 | DIFFERENTIAL HYDRAULIC BUFFER | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2022 |
| 17772036 | VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL BASED ON ROAD FEATURE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | JIN, GEORGE C. | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17489924 | VEHICLE LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
| 16485927 | ACTIVE FORCE CANCELLATION AT STRUCTURAL INTERFACES | ELARABI, TAREK A | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2019 |
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