Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dana Belgium currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a diversified examination path for the company's mechanical innovations. This distribution suggests that the company's filings cover a range of technical subjects that fall under different USPTO classification silos.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single individual oversees the entire pending workload. LEWIS, TISHA D is identified as the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, each matter is being reviewed independently by a different official. This prevents a single examiner's perspective from defining the entire prosecution experience for the company.
Practitioners should note that the presence of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners for only 2 pending office actions indicates a high degree of variety in the current workload. While LEWIS, TISHA D is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, the overall strategy must account for the different requirements of both art units. This diversity in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector may require distinct legal arguments tailored to each examiner's specific technical focus.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, TISHA D | 1 | 87.6% | +9.6% |
| NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 1 | 78.8% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18615872 | SYSTEMS FOR A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | LEWIS, TISHA D | 12d |
| 18495599 | ELECTRIC DRIVELINE SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC DRIVELINE SYSTEM OPERATING METHOD | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 33d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18495599 | ELECTRIC DRIVELINE SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC DRIVELINE SYSTEM OPERATING METHOD | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18615872 | SYSTEMS FOR A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | LEWIS, TISHA D | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18495599 | ELECTRIC DRIVELINE SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC DRIVELINE SYSTEM OPERATING METHOD | NGUYEN, AIMEE TRAN | 3617 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
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