Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
GKN Driveline International GmbH currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This indicates a prosecution effort where the workload is split between different specialized groups within the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the applications cover multiple technical sub-sectors within the broader technology area.
The busiest examiner, BINDA, GREGORY JOHN, is managing 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles 2 of the 3 pending office actions for the company. With only 2 distinct examiners involved in total, the company can focus its resources on a small number of professional relationships at the patent office to resolve the 3 pending office actions. The outcomes of the cases assigned to the busiest examiner will be a primary factor in the portfolio's immediate progress. Practitioners should note that the pending office actions are split between 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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 2 | 80.8% | +11.7% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18291726 | COUNTERTRACK JOINT AND AXLE SHAFT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872081 | TRIPOD JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18436288 | BELLOWS, JOINT ARRANGEMENT AND MOTOR VEHICLE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 14d |
| 18872081 | TRIPOD JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| 18291726 | COUNTERTRACK JOINT AND AXLE SHAFT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872081 | TRIPOD JOINT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18436288 | BELLOWS, JOINT ARRANGEMENT AND MOTOR VEHICLE | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Feb 08, 2024 |
| 18291726 | COUNTERTRACK JOINT AND AXLE SHAFT | BINDA, GREGORY JOHN | 3679 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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