Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dana Automotive Systems Group LLC maintains a company patent portfolio with 9 pending office actions. These actions are categorized under the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 5 distinct art units. This use of 5 art units for 9 actions suggests that the company's automotive semiconductor technologies span several technical categories within the patent office.
There are 9 distinct examiners involved in the prosecution of these 9 pending office actions. RUSHING, JR, BOBBY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This ratio of 9 examiners to 9 pending actions indicates a highly decentralized prosecution effort. For practitioners, this means that each of the 9 matters will be reviewed independently by a different examiner. The diversity of 9 examiners across 5 art units for 9 actions shows that the company's intellectual property is subject to a wide range of examiner perspectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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) | 9 (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 | 76.3% | +12.0% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
| MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 1 | 57.2% | +53.0% |
| VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | 1 | 79.0% | +10.1% |
| QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 1 | 82.7% | +13.4% |
| KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 1 | 73.6% | +15.2% |
| LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 1 | 76.5% | +9.6% |
| MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 1 | 71.9% | +9.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673089 | EXTERNALLY EXCITED ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH ROTOR COOLING SYSTEM | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 28d overdue |
| 18748556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING CARBON BRUSHES AND SLIP RINGS | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 12d |
| 17643576 | SYSTEMS FOR HAIRPIN WIRES FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 15d |
| 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 | — |
| 18908434 | ELECTRIC MACHINE FLUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH AIR VENT | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | — |
| 18638262 | MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673089 | EXTERNALLY EXCITED ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH ROTOR COOLING SYSTEM | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 28d overdue |
| 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 | — |
| 18908434 | ELECTRIC MACHINE FLUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH AIR VENT | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 2 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| 1788 | 1 |
| 2837 | 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 | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 19177202 | STUB SHAFT TO CVJ WHEEL END | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 18908434 | ELECTRIC MACHINE FLUID COOLING SYSTEM WITH AIR VENT | VO, ETHAN NGUYEN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18748556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING CARBON BRUSHES AND SLIP RINGS | QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED | 2834 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18673089 | EXTERNALLY EXCITED ELECTRIC MACHINE WITH ROTOR COOLING SYSTEM | KENERLY, TERRANCE L | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18638262 | MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC DRIVE UNIT | LAUGHLIN, CHARLES S | 3614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18473575 | BATTERY PACK VENTING WITH REACTION SUPPRESSION | MATHEW, ISWARYA | 1788 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 17643576 | SYSTEMS FOR HAIRPIN WIRES FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS | TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER | 2837 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
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