Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hi-Lex Act Corporation is managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, yet they are all located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated technical review process despite the variety of examiners. This situation allows the company to apply a unified technical strategy across its active matters, as the examiners are likely working under the same supervisory and art unit-specific guidelines.
The busiest examiner, NEYZARI, OMID, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the pending office actions are distributed across different examiners, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks within the same art unit environment. This distribution requires the company to be sensitive to the individual nuances of each examiner while maintaining a consistent technical narrative. The focus on the art unit suggests that the company's current innovations are closely related within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field, providing an opportunity to streamline responses based on shared art unit precedents.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMAD, FARIA F | 1 | 76.7% | +8.4% |
| NEYZARI, OMID | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DUDA, RINA I | 1 | 80.2% | +10.1% |
| PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 1 | 57.0% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917927 | SLIDING DOOR DRIVING DEVICE | DUDA, RINA I | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076535 | FRONT TRUNK SYSTEM | AHMAD, FARIA F | — |
| 18967501 | LATCH DEVICE FOR FRONT HOOD | NEYZARI, OMID | — |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18917927 | SLIDING DOOR DRIVING DEVICE | DUDA, RINA I | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076535 | FRONT TRUNK SYSTEM | AHMAD, FARIA F | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18967501 | LATCH DEVICE FOR FRONT HOOD | NEYZARI, OMID | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18917927 | SLIDING DOOR DRIVING DEVICE | DUDA, RINA I | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18783107 | DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING ASSISTANCE DEVICE | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
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