Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grammer AG currently has 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each examiner is currently managing exactly one action for the company, providing a balanced workload across the prosecution staff.
SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's mechanical systems filings are concentrated in a limited number of specialized groups. For a practitioner, this means that while the company is dealing with 5 different examiners, they only need to navigate the standards of 2 technical units. This structure allows for some consistency in technical review while still subjecting the applications to the individual perspectives of 5 distinct examiners. The focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems defines the core technical area of the company's current patenting efforts.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. | 1 | 71.4% | +27.7% |
| AFZALI, SARANG | 1 | 73.4% | +44.6% |
| RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 1 | 77.2% | +15.8% |
| ISLAM, SYED A | 1 | 67.9% | +22.2% |
| BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 1 | 80.1% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502840 | SEATING GROUP WITH SEATS FOR ADJUSTING A SEAT DEPTH AND A LUMBAR SUPPORT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 51d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047449 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH FRAME SCREW CONNECTION | SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. | — |
| 18941515 | ROLLER | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 18502850 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH SIMULTANEOUS ADJUSTMENT OF SEAT DEPTH AND LUMBAR SUPPORT | ISLAM, SYED A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18502840 | SEATING GROUP WITH SEATS FOR ADJUSTING A SEAT DEPTH AND A LUMBAR SUPPORT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 51d overdue |
| 19047449 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH FRAME SCREW CONNECTION | SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. | — |
| 18941515 | ROLLER | AFZALI, SARANG | — |
| 18651829 | ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE SEATS | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | — |
| 18502850 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH SIMULTANEOUS ADJUSTMENT OF SEAT DEPTH AND LUMBAR SUPPORT | ISLAM, SYED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 3 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047449 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH FRAME SCREW CONNECTION | SUE-AKO, ANDREW B. | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 18941515 | ROLLER | AFZALI, SARANG | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18651829 | ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE SEATS | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18502850 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH SIMULTANEOUS ADJUSTMENT OF SEAT DEPTH AND LUMBAR SUPPORT | ISLAM, SYED A | 3636 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18502840 | SEATING GROUP WITH SEATS FOR ADJUSTING A SEAT DEPTH AND A LUMBAR SUPPORT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 3636 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
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