Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 27 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dana Automotive Systems Group LLC holds a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company is currently managing 7 pending office actions. This level of activity reflects a steady engagement with the patent office in these technical fields.
The 7 pending office actions are spread across 7 distinct examiners. These examiners are located in 5 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner, with 5 distinct art units providing a variety of technical oversight environments.
RUSHING, JR, BOBBY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that there are 7 pending office actions and 7 distinct examiners, RUSHING, JR, BOBBY's workload is consistent with the rest of the examiners. This 1 action is one of the 7 total actions currently facing the company.
The presence of 5 distinct art units suggests that the company's automotive innovations are diverse. Practitioners must coordinate across 7 distinct examiners, which requires a strategy that accounts for the specific nuances of 5 different art units within the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 1 | 76.5% | +12.0% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.3% | +73.5% |
| MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 1 | 57.3% | +53.0% |
| QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 1 | 83.3% | +13.1% |
| ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 1 | 64.5% | +24.0% |
| MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING CARBON BRUSHES AND SLIP RINGS | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 12d |
| 19204319 | MULTI-PIECE CLUTCH GEAR ASSEMBLY | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| 19182395 | HEAT TRANSFER AIDE FOR TUBE MOUNT MONO-BLOCK CONSTANT JOINT ASSEMBLY | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 19177202 | STUB SHAFT TO CVJ WHEEL END | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18678442 | ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH A STATOR COOLING ASSEMBLY | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | — |
| 18473575 | BATTERY PACK VENTING WITH REACTION SUPPRESSION | MATHEW, ISWARYA | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18748556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING CARBON BRUSHES AND SLIP RINGS | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 12d |
| 19204319 | MULTI-PIECE CLUTCH GEAR ASSEMBLY | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | — |
| 19182395 | HEAT TRANSFER AIDE FOR TUBE MOUNT MONO-BLOCK CONSTANT JOINT ASSEMBLY | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 19177202 | STUB SHAFT TO CVJ WHEEL END | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| 18678442 | ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH A STATOR COOLING ASSEMBLY | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19204319 | MULTI-PIECE CLUTCH GEAR ASSEMBLY | RUSHING, JR, BOBBY | 3618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19182395 | HEAT TRANSFER AIDE FOR TUBE MOUNT MONO-BLOCK CONSTANT JOINT ASSEMBLY | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19177202 | STUB SHAFT TO CVJ WHEEL END | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 3678 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18748556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING CARBON BRUSHES AND SLIP RINGS | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 2834 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18678442 | ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH A STATOR COOLING ASSEMBLY | ANDREWS, MICHAEL | 2834 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18473575 | BATTERY PACK VENTING WITH REACTION SUPPRESSION | MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDana Automotive Systems Group LLC has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Jr, Bobby Rushing has the most, with 1 of Dana Automotive Systems Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
