Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
9 pending office actions • 5 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH is managing 9 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units. ROBERTO VELEZ is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending action. Since there are 9 distinct examiners for 9 pending office actions, each pending matter is assigned to a unique reviewer.
The 5 distinct art units indicate that the company's transportation and mechanical filings are categorized into several different technical groups. This distribution requires the company to manage prosecution across multiple specialized units within the USPTO. With 9 pending office actions, the company is actively pursuing patent protection for its mechanical and transportation innovations. The use of 9 distinct examiners means that the company's legal representatives must adapt to a variety of individual examiner styles. The 5 distinct art units suggest a moderately diverse technical portfolio, where applications are reviewed by experts in several different specialized fields within the broader mechanical systems sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (11%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
| SCHMIDT, KARI L | 1 | 74.2% | +42.2% |
| TRAN, LONG T | 1 | 83.2% | +13.8% |
| ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | 1 | 63.9% | +28.7% |
| KING, BRADLEY T | 1 | 70.8% | +22.5% |
| SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 1 | 76.0% | +6.5% |
| HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 1 | 50.0% | +20.8% |
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
| LEE, MATTHEW D | 1 | 89.2% | +5.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277602 | Controller for a Vehicle Having a Steering Device, Steering Device, and Method for Cooling an Electric Motor for a Steering Device | LEE, MATTHEW D | 11d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278859 | Thread of a Screw Connection Between a First Module and a Second Module | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 49d overdue |
| 18690316 | Deceleration System | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 22d |
| 18993906 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A BRAKE PRESSURE AND PRESSURE-MEDIUM-ACTUATED BRAKE DEVICE | TRAN, LONG T | 23d |
| 19057300 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING A ROTATIONAL SPEED AND/OR DIRECTION OF ROTATION OF A WHEEL OF A VEHICLE, SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SENSOR, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A SYSTEM | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 18836812 | AIR-TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | — |
| 18786534 | WHEEL-MOUNTED BRAKE DISC FOR RAIL VEHICLES | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18278859 | Thread of a Screw Connection Between a First Module and a Second Module | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 49d overdue |
| 18690316 | Deceleration System | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 22d |
| 18993906 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A BRAKE PRESSURE AND PRESSURE-MEDIUM-ACTUATED BRAKE DEVICE | TRAN, LONG T | 23d |
| 19057300 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING A ROTATIONAL SPEED AND/OR DIRECTION OF ROTATION OF A WHEEL OF A VEHICLE, SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SENSOR, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A SYSTEM | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — |
| 19045796 | SENSOR | SCHMIDT, KARI L | — |
| 18836812 | AIR-TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | — |
| 18786534 | WHEEL-MOUNTED BRAKE DISC FOR RAIL VEHICLES | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19057300 | SENSOR FOR DETECTING A ROTATIONAL SPEED AND/OR DIRECTION OF ROTATION OF A WHEEL OF A VEHICLE, SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A SENSOR, AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A SYSTEM | VELEZ, ROBERTO | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19045796 | SENSOR | SCHMIDT, KARI L | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
| 18993906 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A BRAKE PRESSURE AND PRESSURE-MEDIUM-ACTUATED BRAKE DEVICE | TRAN, LONG T | 3747 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 18836812 | AIR-TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | ORLANDO, AMBER ROSE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18786534 | WHEEL-MOUNTED BRAKE DISC FOR RAIL VEHICLES | KING, BRADLEY T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2024 |
| 18728113 | SILENCER UNIT FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | SAN MARTIN, EDGARDO | 2837 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18690316 | Deceleration System | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 3664 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18278859 | Thread of a Screw Connection Between a First Module and a Second Module | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
| 18277602 | Controller for a Vehicle Having a Steering Device, Steering Device, and Method for Cooling an Electric Motor for a Steering Device | LEE, MATTHEW D | 3617 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Aug 17, 2023 |
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