Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
14 pending office actions • 4 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 53 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hyundai Transys Inc. has 12 pending office actions focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are spread across 11 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This breadth of examiners relative to the number of actions suggests a diverse prosecution landscape where most examiners handle a single matter. The presence of 4 distinct art units indicates that the company's mechanical and transportation innovations are being evaluated across multiple specialized groups within the patent office.
Tisha D Lewis serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. The remaining pending office actions are distributed among the other distinct examiners. This decentralized structure means that the company is interacting with a wide range of patent office personnel simultaneously. With 12 pending office actions in total, the strategy involves significant engagement across various technical divisions. This variety of examiner perspectives can lead to different prosecution experiences across the portfolio, as each of the 11 distinct examiners may have unique approaches to the examination process. This decentralized approach ensures that the company's innovations are evaluated by a wide range of specialized groups and examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (43%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, TISHA D | 2 | 87.6% | +9.6% |
| WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | 1 | 82.5% | +17.8% |
| GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | 1 | 62.2% | +32.2% |
| KIM, YUNJU | 1 | 55.2% | +35.3% |
| BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 81.8% | +7.4% |
| KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| LEE, MATTHEW D | 1 | 89.2% | +5.8% |
| BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 1 | 81.3% | +13.2% |
| LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 46.5% | +54.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18937583 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE | LEWIS, TISHA D | 27d |
| 18937597 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE | LEWIS, TISHA D | 27d |
| 19042880 | VEHICLE SEAT | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
| 18991859 | VEHICLE SEAT | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | — |
| 18963907 | VEHICLE SEAT CAPABLE OF CHANGING SEATING DIRECTION | KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | — |
| 18753618 | Pneumatic Control Apparatus for Vehicle Seat | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18410067 | VEHICLE SEAT POSITION ADJUSTMENT DEVICE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 23d |
| 18928948 | DISCONNECTOR APPARATUS | LEE, MATTHEW D | — |
| 18922456 | SWIVEL AND SLIDING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR ELEMENTS | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18752158 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH HEADREST HAVING MASSAGE DEVICE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042880 | VEHICLE SEAT | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — |
| 19032112 | FOOT MASSAGE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | — |
| 19002462 | CIRCULATING-TYPE FOAM-MOLDED ARTICLE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND METHOD | KIM, YUNJU | — |
| 18922456 | SWIVEL AND SLIDING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR ELEMENTS | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18752158 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH HEADREST HAVING MASSAGE DEVICE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 3 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19042880 | VEHICLE SEAT | WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19032112 | FOOT MASSAGE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2025 |
| 19002462 | CIRCULATING-TYPE FOAM-MOLDED ARTICLE MANUFACTURING DEVICE AND METHOD | KIM, YUNJU | 1742 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18991859 | VEHICLE SEAT | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18963907 | VEHICLE SEAT CAPABLE OF CHANGING SEATING DIRECTION | KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18937583 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE | LEWIS, TISHA D | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18937597 | POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE | LEWIS, TISHA D | 3619 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18928948 | DISCONNECTOR APPARATUS | LEE, MATTHEW D | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18922456 | SWIVEL AND SLIDING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR ELEMENTS | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 22, 2024 |
| 18753618 | Pneumatic Control Apparatus for Vehicle Seat | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 3636 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18752158 | VEHICLE SEAT WITH HEADREST HAVING MASSAGE DEVICE | MILLER, CHRISTOPHER E | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18649287 | FOLDABLE CHAIR AND AN AIRCRAFT INCLUDING THE SAME | KREINER, MICHAEL B | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18410000 | DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING POSITION OF VEHICLE SEAT | ISLAM, SYED A | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18410067 | VEHICLE SEAT POSITION ADJUSTMENT DEVICE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 3636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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