Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hanwha Aerospace Co. Ltd. maintains 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is equally distributed, as there are 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units involved. This distribution between actions, examiners, and art units suggests that each pending matter is being treated as a separate technical and procedural silo. The applicant cannot leverage examiner-specific experience across these 3 pending office actions because each is assigned to a different individual.
SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, matching the workload of other examiners. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is in a different art unit, the applicant must adapt to different sets of supervisory oversight. This structure prevents the company from leveraging examiner-specific or art-unit-specific trends across its current pending portfolio. The 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units ensure that the prosecution of each application remains independent of the others.
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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
| DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 1 | 64.3% | +45.7% |
| DIAZ, SABRINA | 1 | 73.8% | +22.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950931 | GLOBAL PATH GENERATION METHOD FOR WIDE-AREA OFF-ROAD ENVIRONMENT, AND GLOBAL PATH GENERATOR FOR THE SAME | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 4d overdue |
| 19059810 | TUBE FASTENING STRUCTURE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18950931 | GLOBAL PATH GENERATION METHOD FOR WIDE-AREA OFF-ROAD ENVIRONMENT, AND GLOBAL PATH GENERATOR FOR THE SAME | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 4d overdue |
| 18819368 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CANCELLING VEHICLE NOISES | DIAZ, SABRINA | 15d |
| 19059810 | TUBE FASTENING STRUCTURE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19059810 | TUBE FASTENING STRUCTURE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 18950931 | GLOBAL PATH GENERATION METHOD FOR WIDE-AREA OFF-ROAD ENVIRONMENT, AND GLOBAL PATH GENERATOR FOR THE SAME | DOWLING, MICHAEL TYLER EVAN | 3669 | §101 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18819368 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CANCELLING VEHICLE NOISES | DIAZ, SABRINA | 2693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
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