Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cox Automotive Inc. is currently managing 5 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, showing a high degree of examiner variety. The prosecution is spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the applications cover several different technical sub-fields within the optics sector.
ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners for the current workload, each examiner is responsible for a single matter. The distribution across 3 distinct art units suggests that while there is some technical concentration, the company is navigating multiple examination environments. This structure requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships across 3 different administrative units at the patent office.
For a patent practitioner, the lack of examiner overlap means that strategies successful with one examiner may not directly translate to the others. However, the concentration in 3 distinct art units suggests that the pending office actions share some common technical ground. The company must coordinate its Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics arguments to ensure consistency across the examiners. ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K and the other assigned examiners will each provide independent evaluations of the company's claims. The 5 pending office actions represent the current active challenges for Cox Automotive Inc.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 1 | 82.9% | +17.2% |
| GARG, YOGESH C | 1 | 61.7% | +33.4% |
| MONSUR, NASIMA | 1 | 78.5% | +26.7% |
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RECOMMENDATION | GARG, YOGESH C | 84d overdue |
| 18736738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A BATTERY PACK OF A VEHICLE | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RECOMMENDATION | GARG, YOGESH C | 84d overdue |
| 18622296 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TESTING OF A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 22d overdue |
| 18736738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A BATTERY PACK OF A VEHICLE | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| 18621482 | CONTACTOR WELD DETECTION | MONSUR, NASIMA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A BATTERY PACK OF A VEHICLE | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18621514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RECOMMENDATION | GARG, YOGESH C | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18621482 | CONTACTOR WELD DETECTION | MONSUR, NASIMA | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18622296 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TESTING OF A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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