Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Jtekt Column Systems Corporation currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The workload is distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, suggesting a spread of technical subject matter. Daniel M. Keck serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, though he is responsible for only 1 pending action.
The distribution of 3 examiners for 3 pending office actions indicates that no single official is currently managing multiple cases for the company. Practitioners should prepare for diverse perspectives across the 3 art units involved in these proceedings. Because each of the 3 pending actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must address three separate sets of examiner preferences. This structure ensures that the 3 actions are reviewed independently within their respective 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KECK, DANIEL M | 1 | 82.0% | +19.7% |
| SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 1 | 40.5% | +23.4% |
| TRAN, LONG T | 1 | 83.2% | +13.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572007 | STEERING DEVICE | TRAN, LONG T | 9d overdue |
| 18993720 | STEERING DEVICE | KECK, DANIEL M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572007 | STEERING DEVICE | TRAN, LONG T | 9d overdue |
| 18993720 | STEERING DEVICE | KECK, DANIEL M | — |
| 18836631 | MAGNETIC YOKE ASSEMBLY AND SENSOR DEVICE | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3614 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18993720 | STEERING DEVICE | KECK, DANIEL M | 3614 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18836631 | MAGNETIC YOKE ASSEMBLY AND SENSOR DEVICE | SCHINDLER, DAVID M | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18572007 | STEERING DEVICE | TRAN, LONG T | 3747 | §102 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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