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
Iveco S P A operates a company patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, indicating a focused level of prosecution. This suggests that the company is pursuing specific patent protections for its transportation-related mechanical systems through these 2 pending office actions.
The prosecution of these 2 actions is handled by 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This 2 to 2 ratio between examiners and art units shows that each pending matter is being evaluated in a different technical and administrative context. This distribution provides the company with 2 independent reviews, reducing the risk that a single examiner's perspective will dominate the portfolio's outcome across the 2 distinct art units.
VAN BRAMER, JOHN W is identified as the busiest examiner for Iveco S P A, with 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2 and there are 2 distinct examiners, the workload is split. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 confirms that no single examiner has a majority of the portfolio's pending matters, requiring the company to manage 2 separate prosecution tracks across 2 different art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | 1 | 33.2% | +33.4% |
| TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1 | 22.0% | +57.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928718 | CAB PROVIDED WITH A SANITIZATION SYSTEM | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 70d |
| 19103018 | METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF FUEL CONSUMPTION OF A VEHICLE | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17928718 | CAB PROVIDED WITH A SANITIZATION SYSTEM | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 70d |
| 19103018 | METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF FUEL CONSUMPTION OF A VEHICLE | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| 1758 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19103018 | METHOD FOR REDUCTION OF FUEL CONSUMPTION OF A VEHICLE | VAN BRAMER, JOHN W | 3622 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 17928718 | CAB PROVIDED WITH A SANITIZATION SYSTEM | TALBERT, ERIC MICHAEL | 1758 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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