Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 12 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 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. 13 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 | 11 (79%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 1 | 31.3% | +20.3% |
| ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 1 | 44.3% | +36.0% |
| YANG, JAMES J | 1 | 56.8% | +22.3% |
| HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 1 | 51.0% | -5.8% |
| SARWAR, BABAR | 1 | 85.6% | +20.1% |
| MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 1 | 89.6% | +8.9% |
| HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 1 | 42.9% | -41.7% |
| PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY | 1 | 66.7% | +11.4% |
| HANNAN, B M M | 1 | 81.8% | +17.5% |
| OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 1 | 53.7% | +25.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724427 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE AND VEHICLE CONTROL | SARWAR, BABAR | 161d overdue |
| 18643878 | ACCUMULATORS FOR A DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM | MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 139d overdue |
| 18037828 | COLLABORATIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS | HANNAN, B M M | 26d |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18724427 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE AND VEHICLE CONTROL | SARWAR, BABAR | 161d overdue |
| 18267912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAD FEATURE DETECTION | PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY | 86d overdue |
| 18023446 | BUFFER FOR HYDRAULIC PUMPING DEVICE | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 5d |
| 19000998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DYNAMIC CONTROL OF THE SUSPENSION SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 8d |
| 19237816 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 9d |
| 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 2 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19237816 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 13, 2025 |
| 19000998 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DYNAMIC CONTROL OF THE SUSPENSION SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18729574 | MAINTAINING VEHICLE ANONYMITY DURING CLOUD-SUPPORTED VEHICLE LOCALIZATION AND CONTROL | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18724462 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING TERRAIN-BASED LOCALIZATION | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18724427 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DRIVER ASSISTANCE AND VEHICLE CONTROL | SARWAR, BABAR | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 161d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18643878 | ACCUMULATORS FOR A DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM | MILLER, CAITLIN ANNE | 3614 | §103 | Final Rejection | 139d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18560725 | MITIGATION OF KINETOSIS IN A MOVING VEHICLE | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18267912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROAD FEATURE DETECTION | PENKO, JOSHUA JEFFREY | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 86d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18037828 | COLLABORATIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS | HANNAN, B M M | 3657 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18023446 | BUFFER FOR HYDRAULIC PUMPING DEVICE | OLSON, JENNIFER MAR B | 2837 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Feb 27, 2023 |
| 17773676 | MULTI-LANE ROAD CHARACTERIZATION AND TRACKING ALGORITHMS | ALKIRSH, AHMED | 3668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2022 |
| 17787679 | PROACTIVE CONTROL OF VEHICLE SYSTEMS | SHARMA, SHIVAM | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
| 17772036 | VEHICLE SYSTEM CONTROL BASED ON ROAD FEATURE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | JIN, GEORGE C. | 3747 | §102 | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17489924 | VEHICLE LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Sep 30, 2021 |
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