Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Daimler Truck North America currently has 4 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that each pending matter is being reviewed by a unique individual. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives for the company's material science innovations. Despite the variety of examiners, all 4 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit.
ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for the 4 pending office actions, the workload is perfectly distributed among the assigned staff. Practitioners should note the high concentration in 1 distinct art unit despite the involvement of multiple examiners. This suggests a very focused technical scope for the current pending portfolio. This structure allows for independent progress on each matter while maintaining a consistent technical focus.
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 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 1 | 76.0% | +11.9% |
| YOUNG, EDWIN | 1 | 91.4% | +5.8% |
| TAT, BINH C | 1 | 87.3% | +14.2% |
| COLEMAN, RYAN L | 1 | 56.0% | +59.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289322 | MODULAR CHARGING SYSTEM | TAT, BINH C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868136 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY, ASSEMBLY WITH THE SAME, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING, INTEGRATING, AND USING THE SAME | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | — |
| 18863536 | ENGINE GRILLE, ASSEMBLY WITH ENGINE GRILLE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND USING THE SAME | YOUNG, EDWIN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18372295 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLEANING AND MAINTAINING OPERABILITY OF VEHICLE SENSORS | COLEMAN, RYAN L | 35d |
| 18868136 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY, ASSEMBLY WITH THE SAME, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING, INTEGRATING, AND USING THE SAME | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | — |
| 18289322 | MODULAR CHARGING SYSTEM | TAT, BINH C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1714 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868136 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY, ASSEMBLY WITH THE SAME, AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING, INTEGRATING, AND USING THE SAME | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18863536 | ENGINE GRILLE, ASSEMBLY WITH ENGINE GRILLE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND USING THE SAME | YOUNG, EDWIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18289322 | MODULAR CHARGING SYSTEM | TAT, BINH C | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18372295 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CLEANING AND MAINTAINING OPERABILITY OF VEHICLE SENSORS | COLEMAN, RYAN L | 1714 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
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