Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
143 pending office actions • 59 art units • 131 examiners • 0 of 143 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 167 patents granted in the last 365 days
Continental AG maintains 144 pending office actions primarily in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is broad, spanning 57 distinct art units. This high number of 57 distinct art units reflects the wide-ranging nature of the company's technical developments in transportation and mechanical systems.
The prosecution of these 144 pending office actions involves 132 distinct examiners. With 132 distinct examiners, the company's applications are being reviewed by a large group of individuals. This distribution means that the company must manage many unique examiner interactions. The presence of 132 distinct examiners for 144 pending office actions indicates that very few examiners are responsible for multiple cases.
KING, BRADLEY T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 3 pending office actions. Although 3 pending office actions is the highest individual workload, it represents a small portion of the 144 pending office actions. Practitioners must coordinate across the 57 distinct art units to maintain consistency in the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 38 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. 38 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 only | 2 (1%) |
| §101 + other | 35 (24%) |
| §103 only | 37 (26%) |
| §102 only | 4 (3%) |
| §112 only | 5 (3%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 58 (41%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, BRADLEY T | 3 | 70.8% | +22.5% |
| LAGUARDA, GONZALO | 3 | 72.9% | +7.0% |
| DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 2 | 77.0% | +10.9% |
| TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 2 | 83.2% | +25.4% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 2 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
| RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | 2 | 78.4% | +21.1% |
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 2 | 71.7% | +30.7% |
| HUANG, DAVID S | 2 | 87.0% | +15.2% |
| TRAN, VI N | 2 | 46.4% | +34.1% |
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 2 | 85.3% | +9.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556795 | METHOD FOR CREATING A MAP WITH COLLISION PROBABILITIES | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 177d overdue |
| 18701520 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND/OR COOLING FLUID, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM | NOUKETCHA, LIONEL W | 162d overdue |
| 18076530 | FACILITATING HEAT DISSIPATION AND ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING | CRUM, GAGE STEPHEN | 73d overdue |
| 18224417 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ENTERTAINMENT IN A MOTOR VEHICLE | BEDEWI, RAMI NABIH | 72d overdue |
| 18291032 | METHOD OF JOINT USER ACTIVITY DETECTION AND CHANNEL INFORMATION ESTIMATION IN EXTRA-LARGE MIMO (XL-MIMO) SYSTEMS WITH NON-STATIONARITIES | NEFF, MICHAEL R | 67d overdue |
| 17904373 | FLUID CONTAINER COMPRISING A SHUT-OFF DEVICE | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 52d overdue |
| 18290731 | METHOD FOR FORWARDING SYNCHRONIZATION INFORMATION IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND VEHICLE | SCIACCA, SCOTT M | 42d overdue |
| 18711786 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE | CHOI, JISUN | 11d overdue |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561977 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED SYSTEM PARAMETERS OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM USING A COST FUNCTION | TRAN, VI N | 3d overdue |
| 18562290 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED SYSTEM PARAMETERS OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM BY MEANS OF A COST FUNCTION | TRAN, VI N | 56d |
| 19218248 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A VEHICLE IN A TRAFFIC AREA | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 19218235 | BRAKE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BRAKE SYSTEM | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 18980012 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE FORCE OF AN ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE, AND ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
| 18838320 | BRAKE LOAD MEASURING DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR-VEHICLE-WHEEL BRAKE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR-VEHICLE-WHEEL BRAKE COMPRISING A BRAKE LOAD MEASURING DEVICE | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | — |
| 18832851 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND ELECTROHYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
| 18729024 | INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE AND BRAKE SYSTEM HAVING AN INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 5 |
| 2631 | 5 |
| 3666 | 4 |
| 3747 | 4 |
| 3668 | 4 |
| 3667 | 4 |
| 3663 | 4 |
| 3648 | 3 |
| 3745 | 3 |
| 3662 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19371051 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A BACKGROUND ILLUMINATION AND MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION HAVING SUCH A DISPLAY DEVICE | SONG, ZHENG B | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19475589 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND TRANSPORT MEANS | CHIANG, MICHAEL | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 15, 2025 |
| 19166252 | A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BACKLIGHT UNIT FAILURE | NGUYEN, KEVIN M | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 19273057 | TRAFFIC SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLES | WANG, JINGLI | 3666 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 19266133 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TENSIONING FORCES IN AN ELECTROMECHANICAL WHEEL BRAKE | HUYNH, HAI H | 3747 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2025 |
| 19218248 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A VEHICLE IN A TRAFFIC AREA | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2025 |
| 19218235 | BRAKE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A BRAKE SYSTEM | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — | §101§102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2025 |
| 19193372 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COOPERATION IN THE COORDINATION OF DRIVING MANEUVERS | KIM, ANDREW SANG | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19191334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VEHICLE DIAGNOSTICS | SMITH, ISAAC G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19183023 | BRAKE CONTROL UNIT HAVING REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19179251 | COLLISION WARNING DEVICE, VEHICLE COMPRISING A COLLISION WARNING DEVICE, METHOD FOR OPERATING A COLLISION WARNING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | MARTINEZ, ELIZABETH GALYN | 3668 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19121208 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING THE VALUE OF A VOLTAGE DROP ACROSS A POWER CELL OF A SENSOR OF A TYRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM, AND SENSOR FOR A TYRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | WU, ZHEN Y | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19176368 | METHOD OF MONITORING A TRAFFIC AREA WITH A TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM | SHUDY, ANGELINA M | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19084358 | METHOD FOR SENDING AT LEAST ONE BROADCAST MESSAGE VIA A CENTRAL UNIT IN A VEHICLE, CENTRAL UNIT FOR SENDING A BROADCAST MESSAGE, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING A CENTRAL UNIT | BOTELLO, FABIAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19107139 | METHOD FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF DATA, AND BUS NODE | SHIN, CHRISTOPHER B | 2181 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 19058872 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS RANGING WITH A VEHICLE | RIOS-AGUIRRE, IZCALLI ANDRE | 3666 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19048071 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE HYDRAULIC VALVE | JEN, MINGJEN | 3657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19035053 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 18881286 | NETWORK FAULT RECOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | BOUTAH, ALINA A | 2458 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2025 |
| 18877460 | HEAT DISSIPATION DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER | SMITH, COURTNEY L | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18876029 | ANTENNA MODULE AND MOTOR VEHICLE | LOTTER, DAVID E | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18980012 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE FORCE OF AN ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE, AND ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE | KING, BRADLEY T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18871151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATION FOR SWARM MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION | WONG, YUEN H | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18946326 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR ACTUATING A LARGE-AREA CAPACITIVE LOAD THAT IS TO BE OPERATED WITH AN AC VOLTAGE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT | NGUYEN, LONG T | 2842 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 51d overdue | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18864716 | METHOD, CONTROL UNIT AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE TREAD DEPTH OF A TIRE | LAGUARDA, GONZALO | 2855 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18860827 | HANDLING SMALL DATA TRANSMISSION | VU, QUOC THAI NGOC | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860702 | A METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE-STATION | SANDHU, NEVENA ZECEVIC | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18860490 | METHOD FOR SENDING VEHICLE-TO-X-MESSAGES, METHOD FOR DETERMINING A POSSIBLE COLLISION, AND VEHICLE-TO-X-COMMUNICATIONS MODULE | WANG, JACK K | 2686 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18860013 | SYSTEM, METHODS, USER EQUIPMENT AND BASE STATIONS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN A NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK | NGUYEN, THUONG | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18860362 | ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNIT, BRAKE ASSEMBLY AND BRAKE SYSTEM | LANE, NICHOLAS J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18925612 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ON A DISPLAY OF A VEHICLE | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18858630 | Re-transmission of a transmitted concatenation packet by a sending device, especially a base station device or a terminal device of a telecommunication network | RAIMONDO, TRACY LAUREN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18911294 | BRAKE ACTUATING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, HAVING AN ADAPTER UNIT | BURCH, MELODY M | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18854730 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING APERIODIC DOWNLINK SMALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES CONFIGURED FOR SCHEDULED INACTIVATION OF A RECEIVER | CAI, WAYNE HUU | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18854787 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING DOWNLINK SMALL DATA TRANSMISSIONS TO COMMUNICATION DEVICES CONFIGURED FOR SCHEDULED INACTIVATION OF A RECEIVER | TRAN, CONGVAN | — | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18852063 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR FACILITATING VEHICLE SYSTEM UPDATE, AND A PROCESSING METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | KAMRUZZAMAN, MD | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18894834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA IN TIME-SENSITIVE NETWORK, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | KHAN, ATTA | 2449 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18882581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AN IMAGE OUTSIDE A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18882510 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AN IMAGE OUTSIDE A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND MOTOR VEHICLE | NGUYEN, CHAN T H | 2638 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18845883 | BRAKE DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | KRAMER, DEVON C | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18845173 | MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING-BASED SPECIFIC RELATIVE-SPEED SERVICE | HUSSAIN, TAUQIR | 2446 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18842056 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR COMMUNICATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH QUASI-COLOCATION AND A COMMUNICATION METHOD IN ASSOCIATION THERETO | SLOMS, NICHOLAS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18839481 | INTER-DRX ASSISTANCE METHOD FOR OPERATING A USER EQUIPMENT (UE) | LOPATA, ROBERT J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18838320 | BRAKE LOAD MEASURING DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC MOTOR-VEHICLE-WHEEL BRAKE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME, AND ELECTRIC MOTOR-VEHICLE-WHEEL BRAKE COMPRISING A BRAKE LOAD MEASURING DEVICE | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2024 |
| 18837582 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND ASSEMBLY FOR A BRAKE SYSTEM | ALGARASH, KAREM AKRAM | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18832851 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND ELECTROHYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM | KING, BRADLEY T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18729024 | INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE AND BRAKE SYSTEM HAVING AN INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSOR DEVICE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18728866 | HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM FOR LOW TEMPERATURES AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A BRAKE SYSTEM | AUNG, SAN M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2024 |
| 18726895 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18726677 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE | TRAN, THANG DUC | 2686 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialContinental AG has 143 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 59 art units and 131 examiners.
Bradley T King has the most, with 3 of Continental AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.