Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyundai Motor Company currently has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is reviewing exactly 1 pending matter for the company. The prosecution is distributed across 4 distinct art units, which suggests that most of the examiners are working in different specialized groups.
MOHAMAD O EL SAYAH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Since each of the 5 distinct examiners has only 1 pending action, the workload is evenly split across the group. The presence of 4 distinct art units for only 5 pending office actions indicates a relatively broad technical spread for such a small number of active cases. Practitioners should expect to interact with 5 different individuals across 4 different units.
The 1:1 ratio of 5 pending office actions to 5 distinct examiners means that no single individual dominates the current prosecution landscape. Mohamad O El Sayah and the other 4 examiners will each apply their own standards to the pending matters. With 4 distinct art units involved, the company's transportation and mechanical innovations are being evaluated by several different specialized teams. This requires a tailored approach for each of the 5 pending office actions, as there is minimal overlap in the examination environment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 1 | 74.8% | +4.4% |
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.8% | +19.2% |
| LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 1 | 79.0% | +9.6% |
| CHENG, VIVIAN S | 1 | — | — |
| SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 46.0% | +9.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19260804 | POSE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19093836 | COMPRESSION MODULE FOR VEHICLE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19260804 | POSE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19093836 | COMPRESSION MODULE FOR VEHICLE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18918483 | Vehicle and Control Method Thereof | LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18532610 | HYDROGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, HYDROGEN FUEL CELL DEVICE, AND HYDROGEN CHARGING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | CHENG, VIVIAN S | 1781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18337306 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMING OF POWER OF VEHICLE | SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHyundai Motor Company has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 5 examiners.
Mohamad O El Sayah has the most, with 1 of Hyundai Motor Company's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
