Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Magna Automotive Parts (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio focused on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this entity. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit.
MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently on record. Because there is only 1 pending action, this examiner accounts for the entirety of the company's active prosecution at this stage. The concentration of work under 1 examiner indicates a centralized prosecution path.
This structure simplifies the tracking of pending matters within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The 1 pending office action represents the full scope of the company's current interaction with the patent office. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of the distinct examiner and the policies of the distinct art unit involved. The portfolio is currently limited in its active volume.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19043474 | LOCK DEVICE OF A VEHICLE | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19043474 | LOCK DEVICE OF A VEHICLE | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialMagna Automotive Parts (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Alyson Marie Merlino has the most, with 1 of Magna Automotive Parts (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
