Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Dana Automotive Systems Group LLC

9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 33 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (4)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
0
Easy (0%)
1
Unknown (11%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only8 (89%)
No statute on record1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
7
Semiconductors
78% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
22% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, LILLIAN T 1 83.9% +14.0%
QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 1 84.8% +9.6%
BUKHARI, AQEEL H 1 85.6% +14.2%
KENERLY, TERRANCE L 1 73.5% +15.3%
SECK, AHMED F 1 68.9% +18.5%
COMINO, EVA L 1 69.7% +35.4%
SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE 1 66.7% +47.1%
MATES, ROBERT E 1 56.1% +35.9%
TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER 1 72.1% +9.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18828899 MULTI-SPEED ELECTRIC AXLE NGUYEN, LILLIAN T 37d overdue
18748583 VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM AND METHOD BUKHARI, AQEEL H 34d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18828899 MULTI-SPEED ELECTRIC AXLE NGUYEN, LILLIAN T 37d overdue
18673089 EXTERNALLY EXCITED ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH ROTOR COOLING SYSTEM KENERLY, TERRANCE L 28d overdue
18422361 AXLE ASSEMBLY WITH DISCONNECT SYSTEM COMINO, EVA L 8d
18472946 ELECTRIC MOTOR COOLING SYSTEM MATES, ROBERT E 14d
18748583 VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM AND METHOD BUKHARI, AQEEL H 34d
18657507 ELECTRIC MACHINE FLUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH AIR VENT SECK, AHMED F 39d
18530016 COMMON OIL DISTRIBUTOR SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 5
3655 1
2849 1
3615 1
2837 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18828899 MULTI-SPEED ELECTRIC AXLE NGUYEN, LILLIAN T 3655 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Sep 09, 2024
18748556 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING CARBON BRUSHES AND SLIP RINGS QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 2834 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18748583 VEHICLE POWER SYSTEM AND METHOD BUKHARI, AQEEL H 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18673089 EXTERNALLY EXCITED ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH ROTOR COOLING SYSTEM KENERLY, TERRANCE L 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18657507 ELECTRIC MACHINE FLUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH AIR VENT SECK, AHMED F 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 39d Pending May 07, 2024
18422361 AXLE ASSEMBLY WITH DISCONNECT SYSTEM COMINO, EVA L 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18530016 COMMON OIL DISTRIBUTOR SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE 2834 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 05, 2023
18472946 ELECTRIC MOTOR COOLING SYSTEM MATES, ROBERT E 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 22, 2023
17643576 SYSTEMS FOR HAIRPIN WIRES FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Dec 09, 2021

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