Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 6 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHALED, ABDALLA A | 3 | 72.6% | +21.2% |
| SMITH, ISAAC G | 1 | 72.8% | +20.6% |
| DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | 1 | 77.3% | +10.6% |
| KIM, ANDREW SANG | 1 | 83.4% | +5.4% |
| PREVIL, DANIEL | 1 | 85.8% | +12.1% |
| STAUBACH, CARL C | 1 | 73.3% | +20.6% |
| JIN, GEORGE C. | 1 | 84.1% | +13.0% |
| MELTON, TODD M | 1 | 84.2% | +17.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516601 | VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE | MELTON, TODD M | 9d |
| 19073086 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| 18845564 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ARTICULATED VEHICLE | JIN, GEORGE C. | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19179659 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | SMITH, ISAAC G | — |
| 19089824 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 19077779 | PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE DEVICE STORING PROCESSING PROGRAM | KIM, ANDREW SANG | — |
| 19073095 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | STAUBACH, CARL C | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18516601 | VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE | MELTON, TODD M | 9d |
| 19295032 | AUTOMATED DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AUTOMATED DRIVING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND AUTOMATED DRIVING CONTROL METHOD | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — |
| 19295027 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — |
| 19295035 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — |
| 19179659 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | SMITH, ISAAC G | — |
| 19089824 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — |
| 19073086 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | PREVIL, DANIEL | — |
| 19073095 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | STAUBACH, CARL C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3668 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19295032 | AUTOMATED DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING AUTOMATED DRIVING CONTROL PROGRAM, AND AUTOMATED DRIVING CONTROL METHOD | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19295027 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19295035 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD | KHALED, ABDALLA A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2025 |
| 19179659 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | SMITH, ISAAC G | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19089824 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS | DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 25, 2025 |
| 19077779 | PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING METHOD, STORAGE DEVICE STORING PROCESSING PROGRAM | KIM, ANDREW SANG | 3668 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19073086 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | PREVIL, DANIEL | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19073095 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | STAUBACH, CARL C | 3747 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18845564 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ARTICULATED VEHICLE | JIN, GEORGE C. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18516601 | VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE | MELTON, TODD M | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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