Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magna Electronics LLC maintains a company patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data reveals 3 pending office actions, which indicates a range of active prosecution. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technical innovations span different classifications within the transportation sector. This variety in the art units requires a strategy that accounts for different technical standards.
The prosecution workload is handled by 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that the portfolio's progress is not dependent on 1 individual's review. BARGERO, JOHN E is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This means that the 3 pending office actions are split among the examiners. For a practitioner, this distribution across the distinct examiners and art units requires addressing the varying standards of multiple patent office divisions. The current active challenges are represented by the workload assigned to BARGERO, JOHN E and the other officials.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (75%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | 1 | 69.1% | +12.7% |
| BARGERO, JOHN E | 1 | 55.3% | +30.6% |
| EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 1 | 66.7% | +33.3% |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 67.7% | +25.4% |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18072660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION USING IN-CABIN SENSING | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 16d overdue |
| 18072662 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANT VITAL SIGN DETECTION | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 7d |
| 18801064 | RADAR SENSOR WITH RECESSED RADOME | SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | — |
| 18085507 | COOLING STRUCTURE FOR DMS MODULE | BARGERO, JOHN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18801064 | RADAR SENSOR WITH RECESSED RADOME | SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
| 18085507 | COOLING STRUCTURE FOR DMS MODULE | BARGERO, JOHN E | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
| 18072662 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANT VITAL SIGN DETECTION | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 18072660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION USING IN-CABIN SENSING | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
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