Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
DENSO TEN Limited is managing 6 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 6 actions are distributed among distinct examiners, resulting in a ratio of actions to examiners that prevents any individual examiner from exerting control over the company's current patent outcomes. This distribution accounts for 6 different examination styles.
The portfolio is spread across 5 distinct art units, which indicates a technical range within the communications sector. PATEL, MANGLESH M is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 5 distinct art units for pending actions suggests that DENSO TEN Limited is pursuing technologies that do not frequently overlap in USPTO classifications. Because 6 distinct examiners are involved across 5 different sets of administrative requirements, the company must adapt to various examination styles. This ratio of art units to pending actions highlights the specialized nature of the company's current intellectual property filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, MANGLESH M | 1 | 74.9% | +18.1% |
| NGUYEN, AN T | 1 | 67.8% | +18.8% |
| BRINEY III, WALTER F | 1 | 65.5% | +3.9% |
| FERNSTROM, KURT | 1 | 65.8% | +14.1% |
| KOUSAR, SADIA | 1 | 65.6% | +11.9% |
| TERRELL, EMILY C | 1 | 58.7% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693240 | EMOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING EMOTION ESTIMATION MODEL | FERNSTROM, KURT | 28d overdue |
| 19317382 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS | NGUYEN, AN T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693240 | EMOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING EMOTION ESTIMATION MODEL | FERNSTROM, KURT | 28d overdue |
| 18122929 | ONBOARD CAMERA CALIBRATION APPARATUS | TERRELL, EMILY C | 7d |
| 19319054 | VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROLLER | PATEL, MANGLESH M | — |
| 19317382 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS | NGUYEN, AN T | — |
| 18603504 | CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD | KOUSAR, SADIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2686 | 1 |
| 2692 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19319054 | VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROLLER | PATEL, MANGLESH M | 3665 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19317382 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS | NGUYEN, AN T | 2686 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2025 |
| 18821230 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS | BRINEY III, WALTER F | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
| 18693240 | EMOTION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF GENERATING EMOTION ESTIMATION MODEL | FERNSTROM, KURT | 3715 | §101 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18603504 | CHARGING CONTROL DEVICE AND CHARGING CONTROL METHOD | KOUSAR, SADIA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2024 |
| 18122929 | ONBOARD CAMERA CALIBRATION APPARATUS | TERRELL, EMILY C | 2666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Mar 17, 2023 |
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