Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Continental Automotive GmbH operates in the Computing & Software technology area. The organization currently has 2 pending office actions. This workload is distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a broad technical scope for the current filings. This distribution indicates a strategic emphasis on multiple technical niches within the Computing & Software sector. The company's patenting activity is currently spread across these different areas of development.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. PHAM, JESSICA THUY is the busiest examiner, handling 1 pending office action. This alignment shows how the patent office has assigned the company's current applications. The use of 2 distinct examiners suggests a diversified review process where communication is split between different officials. This structure increases the complexity of portfolio management but provides multiple points of contact.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 pending office actions in 2 distinct art units means the prosecution path is varied. Since PHAM, JESSICA THUY handles 1 pending office action, the outcome for that specific matter depends on this individual's interpretation of the claims. This profile reflects an intellectual property strategy that relies on navigating the requirements and preferences of multiple assigned examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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% |
| TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | 1 | 54.4% | +23.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17756461 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING TASK COMPATIBILITY IN NEURAL NETWORKS | PHAM, JESSICA THUY | 7d |
| 17437595 | METHOD FOR CHARGING BY INDUCTION AND ASSOCIATED CHARGING DEVICE | TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2121 | 1 |
| 2859 | 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 |
| 17437595 | METHOD FOR CHARGING BY INDUCTION AND ASSOCIATED CHARGING DEVICE | TORRES RUIZ, JOHALI ALEJANDRA | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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