Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Geely Automobile Research Institute (Ningbo) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between distinct examiners. Furthermore, the prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, indicating a diverse range of technical classifications for the pending applications within the transportation sector.
The busiest examiner for the company is STRIMBU, GREGORY J, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. Because there are 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for the active matters, each application is being handled by a unique examiner in a unique art unit, requiring a tailored approach for each filing.
The distribution across the art units suggests that the company's research and development efforts are touching on different regulatory or technical standards. STRIMBU, GREGORY J is one of the examiners involved in this process. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner perspectives, as the workload is not centralized under a single individual or art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 1 | 56.4% | +80.4% |
| AFRIN, NAZIA | 1 | 39.3% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19021261 | HINGE ASSEMBLY OF SCISSOR DOOR AND VEHICLE HAVING SAME | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19021261 | HINGE ASSEMBLY OF SCISSOR DOOR AND VEHICLE HAVING SAME | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | — |
| 18776639 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING ROAD DATA EVALUATION REPORT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | AFRIN, NAZIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19021261 | HINGE ASSEMBLY OF SCISSOR DOOR AND VEHICLE HAVING SAME | STRIMBU, GREGORY J | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18776639 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING ROAD DATA EVALUATION REPORT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | AFRIN, NAZIA | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
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