Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cooper Standard GmbH has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. While these 3 pending office actions are all located within 1 distinct art unit, they are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. This indicates that while the technical subject matter is concentrated, the prosecution is distributed across multiple individuals.
STRIMBU, GREGORY J is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's innovations in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are closely related in technical scope. The 3 distinct examiners are collectively managing the 3 pending office actions currently active.
The presence of 3 distinct examiners requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously. Even though the matters reside in 1 distinct art unit, the individual perspectives of the 3 distinct examiners will influence the outcomes. STRIMBU, GREGORY J is one of the individuals overseeing the current workload of 3 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 1 | 56.4% | +80.4% |
| ZHUO, WENWEI | 1 | 79.2% | +7.2% |
| PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 1 | 57.0% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19097429 | SEALING STRAND AND SEALING ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 42d overdue |
| 18971233 | SEALING PROFILE STRAND AND SEALING ARRANGEMENT FOR A SLIDING WINDOW | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 19d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19097429 | SEALING STRAND AND SEALING ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19097429 | SEALING STRAND AND SEALING ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 3634 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
| 18985353 | Applique Arrangement and Door Arrangement for a Vehicle | ZHUO, WENWEI | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18971233 | SEALING PROFILE STRAND AND SEALING ARRANGEMENT FOR A SLIDING WINDOW | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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