Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ficosa Automotive S L U currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The prosecution spans 2 distinct art units, reflecting the technical distribution of the company's Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics filings. This distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's active matters are subject to the specific standards of those assigned art units at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is VU, PHU, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This count of 1 pending office action for the busiest examiner is part of the total 2 pending office actions. With 2 distinct examiners involved, practitioners managing this portfolio must coordinate across individual examiner preferences. The fact that VU, PHU handles this workload highlights the distribution of the current prosecution pipeline. This requires a strategy that accounts for the requirements of the 2 distinct examiners across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, PHU | 1 | 85.1% | +10.1% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 76.9% | +38.7% |
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.
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435075 | FLUID DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MANIFOLD ASSEMBLY FOR CLEANING VEHICLE SURFACES | ZADEH, BOB | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18435075 | FLUID DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MANIFOLD ASSEMBLY FOR CLEANING VEHICLE SURFACES | ZADEH, BOB | 42d |
| 18999292 | BLIND SPOT INDICATOR ASSEMBLY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A BLIND SPOT INDICATOR ASSEMBLY, AND REAR-VIEW MIRROR COMPRISING SAID BLIND SPOT INDICATOR ASSEMBLY | VU, PHU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18999292 | BLIND SPOT INDICATOR ASSEMBLY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A BLIND SPOT INDICATOR ASSEMBLY, AND REAR-VIEW MIRROR COMPRISING SAID BLIND SPOT INDICATOR ASSEMBLY | VU, PHU | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18435075 | FLUID DISPENSING SYSTEM AND MANIFOLD ASSEMBLY FOR CLEANING VEHICLE SURFACES | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFicosa Automotive S L U has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Phu Vu has the most, with 1 of Ficosa Automotive S L U's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
