Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cnh Industrial Italia S P A currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being handled by 2 distinct examiners. The portfolio's activity is further divided across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the pending matters involve different technical classifications within the patent office's organizational structure.
ELARABI, TAREK A is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This single action is part of the total pending office actions for the portfolio. With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company is managing a decentralized prosecution profile where each pending matter is subject to the unique environment of a different art unit. This distribution suggests that the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems innovations are being evaluated across multiple specialized technical divisions. The 2 pending office actions require coordination across these 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELARABI, TAREK A | 1 | 69.5% | +36.3% |
| KHALED, ABDALLA A | 1 | 72.9% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A PROPULSION SYSTEM OF A WORK OR AGRICULTURAL VEHICLE | ELARABI, TAREK A | 39d |
| 18099729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTONOMOUS WORK VEHICLE USING A SAFETY CONTROL SYSTEM | KHALED, ABDALLA 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18603552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A PROPULSION SYSTEM OF A WORK OR AGRICULTURAL VEHICLE | ELARABI, TAREK A | 39d |
| 18099729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTONOMOUS WORK VEHICLE USING A SAFETY CONTROL SYSTEM | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18603552 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A PROPULSION SYSTEM OF A WORK OR AGRICULTURAL VEHICLE | ELARABI, TAREK A | 3661 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18099729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTONOMOUS WORK VEHICLE USING A SAFETY CONTROL SYSTEM | KHALED, ABDALLA A | 3667 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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