Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
International Automotive Components Group GmbH is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data indicates 2 pending office actions for the company. These actions are located in 2 distinct art units, showing that the current prosecution is not limited to 1 technical area but is instead split between different examination groups.
The company's applications are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. The busiest examiner, OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI T, is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This means the 2 pending office actions are split between the 2 distinct examiners, with each handling 1 case at this time.
With 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, the prosecution is divided across multiple points of contact. Practitioners can observe that the 2 pending office actions are subject to different perspectives within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This distribution across 2 art units suggests that the company is pursuing multiple technical paths simultaneously, requiring a strategy that accounts for different examiner behaviors.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI T | 1 | 68.0% | +14.0% |
| YOO, REGINA M | 1 | 63.8% | +6.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18246392 | Vehicle Mini-bar With Touchless Interface | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI T | 282d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18246392 | Vehicle Mini-bar With Touchless Interface | OJOFEITIMI, AYODEJI T | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 282d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18040885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISINFECTING VEHICULAR SURFACES | YOO, REGINA M | 1758 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Feb 07, 2023 |
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