Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. has 10 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each of these 10 actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner, resulting in a perfectly distributed examiner load where no two actions are handled by the same person. These matters are spread across 7 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical focus is somewhat concentrated despite the variety of examiners.
LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT is the busiest examiner with only 1 pending office action. Because the 10 pending office actions are distributed among 10 distinct examiners, the company must address 10 different individual perspectives. The involvement of 7 distinct art units for only 10 actions indicates that the company's innovations are reviewed by several different technical groups at the USPTO. This requires a prosecution approach that is highly tailored to each specific case, as there is no opportunity to leverage a relationship with a single examiner across multiple pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 4 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| HEWITT, JAMES M | 1 | 69.6% | +45.3% |
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
| PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | 1 | 67.7% | +41.5% |
| DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 1 | 60.8% | +28.9% |
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
| KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1 | 36.7% | +48.5% |
| BOYLE, KARA BRADY | 1 | 61.7% | -10.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028852 | SHOE MIDSOLE | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 16d overdue |
| 19273670 | QUICK CONNECTOR WITH LOW INSERTION FORCE RETAINER | HEWITT, JAMES M | 27d |
| 18512764 | MANIFOLD SYSTEM | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 28d |
| 19417954 | QUICK CONNECTOR WITH INTEGRATED RFID LATCH VERIFICATION | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 19078009 | MODULAR THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18028852 | SHOE MIDSOLE | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 16d overdue |
| 19273670 | QUICK CONNECTOR WITH LOW INSERTION FORCE RETAINER | HEWITT, JAMES M | 27d |
| 18887983 | PUMP WITH ROTARY VALVE AND FLUID SUBMERSIBLE MOTOR | PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | 27d |
| 18512764 | MANIFOLD SYSTEM | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 28d |
| 19417954 | QUICK CONNECTOR WITH INTEGRATED RFID LATCH VERIFICATION | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 19078009 | MODULAR THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARANT, HARRY E | — |
| 19044575 | ADAPTOR WITH RELIEF GATES | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
| 18582458 | Two-Sided Adaptor | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 3 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 1764 | 1 |
| 1766 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19417954 | QUICK CONNECTOR WITH INTEGRATED RFID LATCH VERIFICATION | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2025 |
| 19273670 | QUICK CONNECTOR WITH LOW INSERTION FORCE RETAINER | HEWITT, JAMES M | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19078009 | MODULAR THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | ARANT, HARRY E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19044575 | ADAPTOR WITH RELIEF GATES | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18887983 | PUMP WITH ROTARY VALVE AND FLUID SUBMERSIBLE MOTOR | PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18582458 | Two-Sided Adaptor | DURDEN, RICHARD KYLE | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18512764 | MANIFOLD SYSTEM | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18207491 | SWITCH PUMP FLOW SCHEME | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18028852 | SHOE MIDSOLE | KRYLOVA, IRINA | 1764 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18028918 | SHOE MIDSOLE | BOYLE, KARA BRADY | 1766 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
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