Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 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 Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a focused but divided workload for the company's legal representatives. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all current matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a high degree of technological consistency in their recent filings. This concentration allows for a unified approach to the technical standards and prior art commonly cited within that specific unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PHU VU, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents exactly the workload assigned to the busiest examiner. Practitioners should note that while the examiner pool is limited, the concentration in the art unit may allow for a more streamlined strategy when addressing technical rejections. The presence of the pending office actions across the distinct examiners means that the company must manage separate professional relationships while navigating the same administrative environment of the distinct art unit. This balance of examiner diversity and art unit focus defines the current prosecution landscape for Ficosa Automotive S L U.
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 | 85.3% | +9.8% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
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 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §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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