Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
ILJIN Global Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All 3 of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very high concentration of prosecution activity under a single point of contact.
WAITS, ALAN B is the busiest examiner for the company, managing all 3 pending office actions. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the entire portfolio, the company's current patent office interactions are entirely centralized. This suggests a very specific technical focus that falls under the jurisdiction of a single examiner in one specialized group.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAITS, ALAN B | 3 | 68.8% | +29.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989861 | CAGE FOR BALL BEARING AND BALL BEARING COMPRISING SAME | WAITS, ALAN B | 15d |
| 19184619 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING SEALING PORTION | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 19184496 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PLURALITY OF SENSING UNITS | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989861 | CAGE FOR BALL BEARING AND BALL BEARING COMPRISING SAME | WAITS, ALAN B | 15d |
| 19184619 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING SEALING PORTION | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| 19184496 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PLURALITY OF SENSING UNITS | WAITS, ALAN B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19184619 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING SEALING PORTION | WAITS, ALAN B | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19184496 | VEHICLE WHEEL BEARING INCLUDING SENSOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PLURALITY OF SENSING UNITS | WAITS, ALAN B | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 18989861 | CAGE FOR BALL BEARING AND BALL BEARING COMPRISING SAME | WAITS, ALAN B | 3617 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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