Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Henniges Automotive Sealing Systems North America Inc. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal activity is focused on a specific technical niche within the broader transportation and mechanical systems landscape.
The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, ensuring a singular focus for the company's legal team. PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this single action represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload, the examiner's specific feedback will be the primary factor in the company's immediate patent strategy. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the coordination required for these pending matters and allows for a direct response strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 1 | 57.0% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18848440 | Seal Assembly Including An Electromagnetic Adhesive | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18848440 | Seal Assembly Including An Electromagnetic Adhesive | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 3634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
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