Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Italdesign-Giugiaro S P A currently has 3 pending office actions within the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is reviewing a pending matter for the company. This distribution ensures that no single examiner holds a majority of the current workload.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the 3 pending office actions are concentrated in a few technical niches within the broader transportation and mechanical systems fields. Having multiple examiners across 2 art units means that at least multiple examiners are likely working within the same art unit, potentially sharing similar supervisory guidelines.
GELILA SOLOMON KEBEDE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this accounts for 1 of the total pending actions, the company's prosecution strategy must account for the individual styles of the different examiners. The focus on the 2 distinct art units provides a relatively narrow organizational footprint for managing these pending office actions.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 1 | 27.1% | +31.8% |
| CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 1 | 69.6% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17783159 | SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING THE POSITION OF AN AUTOMOTIVE SEAT | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 72d overdue |
| 19099188 | System for Anchoring a Safety Seat, in Particular for a Child, to the Seat of a Vehicle, and Method Thereof | KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | — |
| 17762422 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND/OR CONFIGURING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF A VEHICLE | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17783159 | SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING THE POSITION OF AN AUTOMOTIVE SEAT | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 72d overdue |
| 17762422 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND/OR CONFIGURING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF A VEHICLE | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19099188 | System for Anchoring a Safety Seat, in Particular for a Child, to the Seat of a Vehicle, and Method Thereof | KEBEDE, GELILA SOLOMON | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 17783159 | SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING THE POSITION OF AN AUTOMOTIVE SEAT | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2022 |
| 17762422 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHECKING AND/OR CONFIGURING THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF A VEHICLE | CALLE, ANGEL JAVIER | 2189 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
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