Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyundai Kefico Corporation currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's active prosecution spans several technical classifications. This distribution indicates that the company's innovations in this sector are being evaluated by at least 3 different specialized groups within the patent office.
The workload involves 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling 1 case. LAM, ALEX W is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, accounting for 1 of the company's total 5 pending actions. Because there are 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending actions, the company faces 5 different individual perspectives across the 3 distinct art units. This requires a prosecution strategy that is flexible enough to address the individual requirements of 5 different examiners while maintaining consistency across the multiple art units involved.
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 | 4 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAM, ALEX W | 1 | 91.6% | +2.1% |
| MULARSKI, ROSS TERRY | 1 | 78.6% | +23.0% |
| ST CYR, DANIEL | 1 | 81.3% | +12.8% |
| HAUPT, KRISTY A | 1 | 87.8% | +11.2% |
| SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 1 | 86.2% | +18.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200451 | V2L CONVERTER FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | LAM, ALEX W | — |
| 18389484 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER WITH DOUBLE-DOOR BOX SEPARATING HIGH AND LOW VOLTAGE PARTS FROM EACH OTHER | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — |
| 17673228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CHARGER FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLE | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18514190 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CHARGING OF BATTERY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | ST CYR, DANIEL | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397417 | FOLDABLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE | MULARSKI, ROSS TERRY | — |
| 18514190 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CHARGING OF BATTERY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | ST CYR, DANIEL | — |
| 18389484 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER WITH DOUBLE-DOOR BOX SEPARATING HIGH AND LOW VOLTAGE PARTS FROM EACH OTHER | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — |
| 17673228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CHARGER FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLE | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2842 | 1 |
| 2800 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200451 | V2L CONVERTER FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | LAM, ALEX W | 2842 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18397417 | FOLDABLE ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE | MULARSKI, ROSS TERRY | 2800 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18514190 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING CHARGING OF BATTERY IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | ST CYR, DANIEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18389484 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER WITH DOUBLE-DOOR BOX SEPARATING HIGH AND LOW VOLTAGE PARTS FROM EACH OTHER | HAUPT, KRISTY A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 17673228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING CHARGER FOR FUEL CELL VEHICLE | SAUNCY, TONI DIAN | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2022 |
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