Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Livewire Ev LLC currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KANDAS, NICHOLAS R. The data indicates 0 distinct art units are involved in this active prosecution. KANDAS, NICHOLAS R is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The concentration of activity under KANDAS, NICHOLAS R suggests a very specific focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. With 0 distinct art units listed, the matter may be in an early stage of the examination process. Practitioners should focus their strategy on the specific requirements of this examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 84.6% | +20.9% |
| ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 1 | 76.0% | +11.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18957204 | REMOVABLE MODULE | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494240 | MOTORCYCLE WITH VIRTUAL BRAKING AND VIRTUAL CLUTCH | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494240 | MOTORCYCLE WITH VIRTUAL BRAKING AND VIRTUAL CLUTCH | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 69d |
| 18957204 | REMOVABLE MODULE | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18957204 | REMOVABLE MODULE | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18494240 | MOTORCYCLE WITH VIRTUAL BRAKING AND VIRTUAL CLUTCH | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 3618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Oct 25, 2023 |
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