Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group LLC has 3 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners across 2 art units, so examination is distributed among examiners while some activity reaches the same art-unit environment.
TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action. Counsel may benefit from coordinating claim strategy across the matters while preserving examiner-specific response planning where the art-unit assignments differ.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 1 | 88.4% | +7.1% |
| MAI, THIEN T | 1 | 59.1% | +19.9% |
| BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 1 | 44.4% | +71.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18655100 | MODULAR INTERFACE PLATE FOR CHARGE INLET COOLING | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TANDEM AXLE SHIFTING | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 32d overdue |
| 18599957 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTACTOR CONTROL | MAI, THIEN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2876 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18655100 | MODULAR INTERFACE PLATE FOR CHARGE INLET COOLING | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 2876 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18599957 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTACTOR CONTROL | MAI, THIEN T | 2876 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18299513 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TANDEM AXLE SHIFTING | BREWER, JACK ROBERT | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialDana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group LLC has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
Allyson Neel Trail has the most, with 1 of Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
