Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
Continental Automotive GmbH currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units indicates a diverse set of active cases within the software sector, with no concentration in any single administrative group.
PHAM, JESSICA THUY is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1 and a total of 3 pending actions, the workload is evenly distributed among the assigned examiners. This lack of concentration suggests that the company's current prosecution strategy involves multiple distinct technological paths or examiner interactions. For practitioners, this distribution means that the portfolio's overall success is not dependent on any single examiner's individual tendencies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 1 | 18.2% | +90.0% |
| ALKIRSH, AHMED | 1 | 47.7% | +32.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TASK COMPATIBILITY IN NEURAL NETWORKS | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17457568 | SPIKE BARRIER DETECTION VEHICULAR SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALKIRSH, AHMED | 66d overdue |
| 17756461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TASK COMPATIBILITY IN NEURAL NETWORKS | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2121 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17756461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TASK COMPATIBILITY IN NEURAL NETWORKS | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 2121 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17457568 | SPIKE BARRIER DETECTION VEHICULAR SYSTEM AND METHOD | ALKIRSH, AHMED | 3668 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Dec 03, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialContinental Automotive GmbH has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Jessica Thuy Pham has the most, with 1 of Continental Automotive GmbH's pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
