Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
16 pending office actions • 11 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Garrett Transportation I Inc. is managing 15 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 15 pending office actions are distributed across 10 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical range within the semiconductor field. The portfolio is characterized by a high degree of examiner diversity, with 15 distinct examiners involved, ensuring that each pending action is receiving an independent review.
HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because each of the 15 distinct examiners is handling exactly one case, there is no examiner-specific concentration for the 15 pending office actions. The primary challenge for this portfolio is managing the 10 distinct art units, which likely represent a wide variety of examination standards. Practitioners should coordinate across the 15 distinct examiners to ensure that the company's technical arguments remain consistent across the 10 distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 + other | 2 (12%) |
| §103 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (69%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 1 | 78.7% | +12.8% |
| SMITH, COURTNEY L | 1 | 85.5% | +12.0% |
| DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 1 | 65.0% | +31.5% |
| PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | 1 | 67.7% | +41.5% |
| SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 1 | 86.2% | +18.4% |
| HEVEY, JOHN A | 1 | 61.6% | +19.9% |
| FENG, ZHENGFU J | 1 | 75.5% | +39.0% |
| NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 1 | 67.5% | +24.2% |
| LEWIS, TISHA D | 1 | 87.6% | +9.6% |
| SINGER, DAVID L | 1 | 69.1% | +42.2% |
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.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618850 | ESTIMATION OF AUXILIARY LOADS IN HYBRID OR BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR FAILURE DETECTION | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522331 | LIFT OFF SPEED DETECTION | SINGER, DAVID L | 7d |
| 18583258 | TRANSISTOR CARRIER AND COOLING MECHANISM | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 23d |
| 18987744 | FIXED RADIAL INLET GUIDE VANES CONFIGURED TO DIRECT EXHAUST TO A TURBINE | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18827949 | FLUID-COOLED THERMAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONICS DEVICE HAVING ARRAY OF PROJECTIONS WITH NON-UNIFORM ARRANGEMENT | SMITH, COURTNEY L | — |
| 18776489 | HYBRID COMPRESSOR | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | — |
| 18648546 | Fluid Compressor Device | PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | — |
| 18436830 | METHODS OF FORECASTING BATTERY STATE OF HEALTH | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18538317 | INTEGRATED CHARGER AND CHARGING METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES | LEWIS, TISHA D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18522331 | LIFT OFF SPEED DETECTION | SINGER, DAVID L | 7d |
| 18583258 | TRANSISTOR CARRIER AND COOLING MECHANISM | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 23d |
| 18987744 | FIXED RADIAL INLET GUIDE VANES CONFIGURED TO DIRECT EXHAUST TO A TURBINE | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | — |
| 18827949 | FLUID-COOLED THERMAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONICS DEVICE HAVING ARRAY OF PROJECTIONS WITH NON-UNIFORM ARRANGEMENT | SMITH, COURTNEY L | — |
| 18776489 | HYBRID COMPRESSOR | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | — |
| 18648546 | Fluid Compressor Device | PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | — |
| 18618850 | ESTIMATION OF AUXILIARY LOADS IN HYBRID OR BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR FAILURE DETECTION | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — |
| 18611000 | STAINLESS STEEL ALLOYS, TURBOCHARGER COMPONENTS FORMED FROM THE STAINLESS STEEL ALLOYS, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2818 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18987744 | FIXED RADIAL INLET GUIDE VANES CONFIGURED TO DIRECT EXHAUST TO A TURBINE | HAGHIGHIAN, BEHNOUSH | 3745 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18827949 | FLUID-COOLED THERMAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR ELECTRONICS DEVICE HAVING ARRAY OF PROJECTIONS WITH NON-UNIFORM ARRANGEMENT | SMITH, COURTNEY L | 2841 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18776489 | HYBRID COMPRESSOR | DELEON, DARIO ANTONIO | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18648546 | Fluid Compressor Device | PEKARSKAYA, LILYA | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18618850 | ESTIMATION OF AUXILIARY LOADS IN HYBRID OR BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR FAILURE DETECTION | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18611000 | STAINLESS STEEL ALLOYS, TURBOCHARGER COMPONENTS FORMED FROM THE STAINLESS STEEL ALLOYS, AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | HEVEY, JOHN A | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18583258 | TRANSISTOR CARRIER AND COOLING MECHANISM | FENG, ZHENGFU J | 2835 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18436830 | METHODS OF FORECASTING BATTERY STATE OF HEALTH | NGHIEM, MICHAEL P | 2857 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18538317 | INTEGRATED CHARGER AND CHARGING METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES | LEWIS, TISHA D | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18522331 | LIFT OFF SPEED DETECTION | SINGER, DAVID L | 2855 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 7d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18519143 | LOW SWITCHING LOSS INVERTER CIRCUIT BOARD | MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE | 2818 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18520155 | EIS-BASED HEALTH-DEGRADATION HANDLING FAST-CHARGING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES | BICKIYA, AIMAN AMIR | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2023 |
| 18494816 | MULTIZONE HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEM | HERRMANN, JOSEPH S | 3746 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18351185 | SINTERED BUSHINGS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME | LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18350834 | E-MACHINE SYSTEM WITH WINDINGS ARRANGEMENT HAVING COOLING PASSAGES | SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
| 18145066 | TRANSISTOR PIN ALIGNMENT ASSEMBLY | TRINH, MINH N | 3729 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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