Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyundai Motor Company currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. LAROSE, RENEE MARIE is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending action.
This indicates that the 3 pending office actions are evenly distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's transportation-related filings are being reviewed across different specialized groups within the patent office. For practitioners, having 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions means that the company is receiving a variety of perspectives on its technology. This diversification across 2 distinct art units can help mitigate the risk of a single unfavorable examiner or art unit policy. The workload for LAROSE, RENEE MARIE is limited to 1 pending action, reflecting a balanced distribution of the company's current prosecution efforts in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 (25%) |
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
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 | 75.3% | +3.6% |
| LAROSE, RENEE MARIE | 1 | 79.2% | +9.2% |
| CHENG, VIVIAN S | 1 | — | — |
| SLOWIK, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 45.2% | +5.7% |
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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3657 | 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 |
| 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 | — | §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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