Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innovative Aftermarket Group operates a patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The current prosecution status shows 1 pending office action, reflecting a point of active negotiation with the patent office. This specific workload suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights within its technical domain.
The portfolio's administrative reach is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current legal efforts are focused through a specific regulatory channel. By operating within the identified art unit, the prosecution strategy likely encounters a consistent set of prior art and examination standards relevant to Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems.
BENDIDI, RACHID is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. As the examiner involved in the company's active cases, BENDIDI, RACHID represents the primary interface for the Innovative Aftermarket Group. The successful resolution of the 1 pending action depends on the interactions with this specific examiner, making their individual examination style a factor for the portfolio's immediate outcomes.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENDIDI, RACHID | 1 | 78.5% | +20.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18186576 | VEHICLE ROLLOVER NOTIFICATION SYSTEM | BENDIDI, RACHID | 58d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18186576 | VEHICLE ROLLOVER NOTIFICATION SYSTEM | BENDIDI, RACHID | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
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