Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ford Motor Company

6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (83%)
§102 only1 (17%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

3
Life Sciences
50% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
33% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
17% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 1 81.0% +15.8%
MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J 1 82.0% +16.6%
DOVE, TRACY MAE 1 69.3% +10.2%
HOSSAIN, KAZI S 1 79.5% +16.3%
WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 1 57.3% +34.9%
BUCHANAN, JACOB 1 56.0% +44.0%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18404132 METHOD OF TESTING VEHICLE CLEAR VISION GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 50d overdue
18312337 HANGING TROLLEY SYSTEM WITH BRAKE MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J 15d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17896727 TRACTION BATTERY ASSEMBLY HAVING MULTIPIECE BUSBAR MODULE BUCHANAN, JACOB 53d overdue
18404132 METHOD OF TESTING VEHICLE CLEAR VISION GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 50d overdue
18312337 HANGING TROLLEY SYSTEM WITH BRAKE MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J 15d overdue
18184960 FREEZE CASTING OF ELECTRODES DOVE, TRACY MAE 8d overdue
17990914 METHOD OF FORMING A BATTERY ELECTRODE MICROSTRUCTURE TO REDUCE TORTUOSITY WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 15d
18175942 COIL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME HOSSAIN, KAZI S 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1725 2
2855 1
3615 1
2837 1
1723 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18404132 METHOD OF TESTING VEHICLE CLEAR VISION GRAVES, TIMOTHY P 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Jan 04, 2024
18312337 HANGING TROLLEY SYSTEM WITH BRAKE MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending May 04, 2023
18184960 FREEZE CASTING OF ELECTRODES DOVE, TRACY MAE 1725 §102 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Mar 16, 2023
18175942 COIL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME HOSSAIN, KAZI S 2837 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Feb 28, 2023
17990914 METHOD OF FORMING A BATTERY ELECTRODE MICROSTRUCTURE TO REDUCE TORTUOSITY WYROUGH, PAUL CHRISTIAN ST 1723 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Nov 21, 2022
17896727 TRACTION BATTERY ASSEMBLY HAVING MULTIPIECE BUSBAR MODULE BUCHANAN, JACOB 1725 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2022

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