Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hino Motors Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among distinct examiners. The pending matters are located in different art units, as there are distinct art units for each case. This indicates a high level of technical diversity for a small portfolio, with each case falling into a unique classification. The alignment of the pending office actions with the distinct art units suggests a broad research and development focus.
JARED C BEAN is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With the pending office actions and distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. This distribution across the distinct art units and examiners suggests that Hino Motors Ltd. is pursuing distinct technical innovations that require specialized review from different areas of the USPTO. Practitioners must navigate different examiner personalities and art unit cultures, even with only the pending office actions currently active in the portfolio. The outcome of these matters will depend on managing these 3 separate examiner relationships effectively.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEAN, JARED C | 1 | 63.0% | +42.4% |
| MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 1 | 81.1% | +17.6% |
| NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 1 | 55.2% | +42.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698041 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18859346 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | BEAN, JARED C | 82d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698041 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 16d |
| 18859346 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | BEAN, JARED C | 82d |
| 18246238 | VEHICLE-USE POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE | NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18859346 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | BEAN, JARED C | 3669 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18698041 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | MARTINEZ BORRERO, LUIS A | 3665 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18246238 | VEHICLE-USE POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE | NGUYEN, JASON TOAN | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2023 |
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