Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Independent Driving Systems Inc.

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Independent Driving Systems Inc. is currently engaged in the prosecution of 1 pending office action. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which limits the company's current patent office interactions to a single contact point. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SONG, DUHYUNG, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This workload constitutes the entirety of the company's pending actions.

Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the current prosecution does not involve multiple perspectives or examination approaches. The outcome of the current filing depends entirely on the review conducted by this specific examiner. This concentration suggests that the current intellectual property strategy is focused on the requirements of a single official at the patent office. The data shows that all active prosecution efforts are concentrated under this single point of contact, requiring a focused response to the pending office action.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SONG, DUHYUNG 1 — —

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18769065 STEERING ASSIST SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTABLE STEERING FORCE SONG, DUHYUNG —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18769065 STEERING ASSIST SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTABLE STEERING FORCE SONG, DUHYUNG — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024

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