Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ls Automotive Technologies Co. Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, though they are centralized within 1 distinct art unit at the USPTO. This structure indicates that while the technical subject matter is consistent enough to stay within a single unit, the company is dealing with multiple individual perspectives during the examination process.
The busiest examiner for the company is SAEED, AHMED M, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This indicates that the pending office actions are split evenly among the examiners. The concentration in a single distinct art unit suggests that while different examiners are reviewing the applications, the technical subject matter remains within a single specialized group. Practitioners must manage the pending office actions by considering the specific preferences of each examiner while adhering to the general practices of the art unit involved.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIRZA, ADNAN M | 1 | 84.6% | +9.6% |
| SAEED, AHMED M | 1 | 80.8% | +13.1% |
| EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 1 | 64.1% | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19319585 | DRIVING OPERATION APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | MIRZA, ADNAN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712968 | SWITCH DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | SAEED, AHMED 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712968 | SWITCH DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | SAEED, AHMED M | — |
| 17953833 | Energy Source Door Assembly | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19319585 | DRIVING OPERATION APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | MIRZA, ADNAN M | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 18712968 | SWITCH DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | SAEED, AHMED M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 17953833 | Energy Source Door Assembly | EVANGELISTA, THEODORE JUSTINE | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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