Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
17 pending office actions • 6 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 17 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. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 13 (76%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| §112 only | 3 (18%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY, CATHERINE A | 2 | 59.7% | +28.3% |
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 2 | 64.6% | +31.5% |
| REPHANN, JUSTIN B | 1 | 78.1% | +24.5% |
| MENEZES, MARCUS | 1 | 70.5% | +51.5% |
| AHMAD, FARIA F | 1 | 76.4% | +8.6% |
| MILLER, WILLIAM L | 1 | 79.0% | +14.5% |
| SIDKY, YAHYA I | 1 | 76.1% | +22.6% |
| MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 1 | 83.9% | +12.3% |
| IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 80.7% | -5.2% |
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.7% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18632226 | CLOSURE PANEL SYSTEM WITH MOTOR OUTPUT INTERLOCK CONTROL | MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 22d |
| 18606491 | BLIND CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR A REMOTE ACTUATOR | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 27d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738543 | CLOSURE LATCH ASSEMBLY WITH CINCH DISENGAGEMENT MECHANISM HAVING TOGGLE FEATURE | SIDKY, YAHYA I | 60d overdue |
| 18426954 | HOOD SYSTEM WITHOUT POP-UP SPRING | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 32d overdue |
| 18806909 | GRAVITY COMPENSATION IMPROVEMENT FOR POWER CLOSURE MEMBER MOTION CONTROL | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 25d overdue |
| 16737796 | SMART LATCH ASSEMBLY WITH ACTUATOR MODULE | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 16d overdue |
| 18387451 | LATCH WITH SECONDARY POSITION DETERMINED BY CINCH LEVER AND SUPPORTED BY PRIMARY PAWL | LUGO, CARLOS | 11d overdue |
| 18907469 | POWERED DOOR UNIT OPTIMIZED FOR SERVO CONTROL | MENEZES, MARCUS | 5d |
| 19043497 | MECHANICAL CHECK ON LINEAR DRIVE ACTUATOR | REPHANN, JUSTIN B | 21d |
| 18632226 | CLOSURE PANEL SYSTEM WITH MOTOR OUTPUT INTERLOCK CONTROL | MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 9 |
| 3634 | 3 |
| 3619 | 2 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092311 | VEHICLE DOOR WITH POWER CLOSE FUNCTION HAVING NON-CONTACT OBSTACLE DETECTION AND METHOD | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 3619 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19043497 | MECHANICAL CHECK ON LINEAR DRIVE ACTUATOR | REPHANN, JUSTIN B | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Feb 02, 2025 |
| 18907469 | POWERED DOOR UNIT OPTIMIZED FOR SERVO CONTROL | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18887019 | SINGLE MOTOR E-RELEASE LATCH WITH DOUBLE LOCK/CHILD LOCK | AHMAD, FARIA F | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18806909 | GRAVITY COMPENSATION IMPROVEMENT FOR POWER CLOSURE MEMBER MOTION CONTROL | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18745775 | HINGE SYSTEM FOR POWER DOOR WITH X-MOVEMENT | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 3677 | §112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18738543 | CLOSURE LATCH ASSEMBLY WITH CINCH DISENGAGEMENT MECHANISM HAVING TOGGLE FEATURE | SIDKY, YAHYA I | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18632226 | CLOSURE PANEL SYSTEM WITH MOTOR OUTPUT INTERLOCK CONTROL | MANLEY, SHERMAN D | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18606491 | BLIND CONNECTION SYSTEM FOR A REMOTE ACTUATOR | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
| 18426954 | HOOD SYSTEM WITHOUT POP-UP SPRING | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 18387451 | LATCH WITH SECONDARY POSITION DETERMINED BY CINCH LEVER AND SUPPORTED BY PRIMARY PAWL | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §112 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Nov 06, 2023 |
| 18153747 | DRIVEN SPRING SYSTEM FOR HOOD | CALLAHAN, CHRISTOPHER F | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
| 17749821 | POWER DOOR LINKAGE SYSTEM FOR B-PILLARLESS DOOR SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 74d overdue | Pending | May 20, 2022 |
| 17561402 | ANTI-PINCH PROTECTION SYSTEM UTILIZING LATCH CONTROL | HOROWITZ, NOAH NMN | 3675 | §102 | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2021 |
| 17549334 | DOOR SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES PROVIDING POWER PRESENT AND HOLD FUNCTIONS AND EQUIPPED WITH A CLOSURE LATCH ASSEMBLY HAVING A POWER RELEASE AND SAFETY CATCH ARRANGEMENT | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 13, 2021 |
| 17617648 | A POWER CLOSURE MEMBER ACTUATION SYSTEM | NELESKI, ELIZABETH ROSE | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2021 |
| 16737796 | SMART LATCH ASSEMBLY WITH ACTUATOR MODULE | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2020 |
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