Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
DENSO International America Inc. maintains a patent portfolio with 8 pending office actions concentrated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution workload is spread across 8 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. This distribution shows that every pending action is currently assigned to a different individual examiner, suggesting a broad exposure to various examination styles within the USPTO.
The 5 distinct art units involved indicate that the company's intellectual property covers several specialized technical niches within its primary technology area. GABRIEL P ANFINRUD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though this individual is only managing 1 pending office action. This distribution across the examiner pool means that no single official currently dominates the company's pending legal hurdles.
Practitioners should note the ratio of examiners to pending actions. With 8 distinct examiners for 8 pending office actions, the company must navigate a diverse set of procedural preferences. The presence of 5 distinct art units further suggests that while the technology area is unified, the specific claims likely trigger different internal classifications at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 1 | 42.0% | +25.7% |
| WANG, JINGLI | 1 | 71.3% | +17.7% |
| JIANG, YONG HANG | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.2% | +22.3% |
| WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 1 | 58.0% | +34.8% |
| CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | 1 | 78.9% | +34.9% |
| ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | 1 | 71.4% | +29.4% |
| ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 1 | 59.0% | +20.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19083518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY BASED ON GEO-FENCING | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | — |
| 18736679 | Method For Controlling Access To A Retail Display Case | JIANG, YONG HANG | — |
| 18614879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING OPERATING CONDITIONS OF A SPOT COOLER | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18513482 | VEHICLE HVAC SYSTEM | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18512865 | SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRICALLY HEATING VEHICLE WINDSHIELD AND HVAC COMPONENTS | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18979998 | TORQUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | WANG, JINGLI | 4d overdue |
| 19083518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY BASED ON GEO-FENCING | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | — |
| 18736679 | Method For Controlling Access To A Retail Display Case | JIANG, YONG HANG | — |
| 18614879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING OPERATING CONDITIONS OF A SPOT COOLER | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18614026 | HVAC Airflow Throttling Mechanism | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — |
| 18513482 | VEHICLE HVAC SYSTEM | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | — |
| 18512865 | SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRICALLY HEATING VEHICLE WINDSHIELD AND HVAC COMPONENTS | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — |
| 18506352 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING A TRAFFIC PATTERN FROM SPARSE DATA | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19083518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TRAJECTORY BASED ON GEO-FENCING | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 18979998 | TORQUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | WANG, JINGLI | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18736679 | Method For Controlling Access To A Retail Display Case | JIANG, YONG HANG | 2689 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18614879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING OPERATING CONDITIONS OF A SPOT COOLER | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18614026 | HVAC Airflow Throttling Mechanism | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18513482 | VEHICLE HVAC SYSTEM | CARTER, AMY ELIZABETH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18512865 | SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRICALLY HEATING VEHICLE WINDSHIELD AND HVAC COMPONENTS | ASSANTE, KEITH BRIAN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18506352 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING A TRAFFIC PATTERN FROM SPARSE DATA | ALGEHAIM, MOHAMED A | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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