Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magna Exteriors Inc. has 9 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 9 distinct examiners, indicating a one-to-one ratio of cases to examiners. The workload is further spread across 7 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's transportation and mechanical innovations are being reviewed by a diverse group of technical experts.
ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. With 9 pending office actions and 9 distinct examiners, the prosecution process is highly fragmented. The involvement of 7 distinct art units means that the company must navigate the standards of many different specialized units. Practitioners must manage 9 separate examiner relationships, as the data shows no concentration of the 9 pending office actions under any single examiner. The data indicates that ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE is one of the 9 distinct examiners currently managing the company's pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (10%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (70%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWENSON, BRIAN L | 1 | 81.0% | +9.5% |
| ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | 1 | 85.6% | +4.9% |
| CRUZ, MAGDA | 1 | 87.1% | +9.6% |
| LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 1 | 89.9% | +8.5% |
| AKAKPO, DANY E | 1 | 86.7% | +13.3% |
| PAPE, JOSEPH | 1 | 88.3% | +3.7% |
| LIU, XUE H | 1 | 73.1% | +12.6% |
| FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 1 | 69.2% | +14.7% |
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.3% | +52.8% |
| KELLY, CATHERINE A | 1 | 60.4% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18997420 | AN ACTIVE AIR DEFLECTOR FOR A VEHICLE HAVING A MORPHABLE SURFACE | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844946 | METHOD OF PERFORMING ZONE ABLATION ON A POLYMER SUBSTRATE | FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 14d |
| 19116714 | ADJUSTABLE VISIBLE VANES FOR AN ADJUSTABLE GRILLE SHUTTER SYSTEM | SWENSON, BRIAN L | — |
| 18998649 | DEPLOYABLE FLEXIBLE FABRIC SPOILER FOR VEHICLE | ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | — |
| 19032569 | VEHICULAR PROJECTION DISPLAY AT WINDOW OF VEHICLE | CRUZ, MAGDA | — |
| 18937911 | HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL VEHICLE PANEL ARRANGEMENTS | AKAKPO, DANY E | — |
| 18913259 | COMPOSITE LIFTGATE | PAPE, JOSEPH | — |
| 18320726 | METAL THERMOPLASTIC SANDWICH OVERMOLD | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| 17919440 | ANTI-PINCH SENSOR EASY INSTALL TO FLANGE | KELLY, CATHERINE A | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844946 | METHOD OF PERFORMING ZONE ABLATION ON A POLYMER SUBSTRATE | FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 14d |
| 18937911 | HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL VEHICLE PANEL ARRANGEMENTS | AKAKPO, DANY E | — |
| 18888717 | RECYCLED GLASS IN SPRAY TRANSFER MOLDING | LIU, XUE H | — |
| 18320726 | METAL THERMOPLASTIC SANDWICH OVERMOLD | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| 17919440 | ANTI-PINCH SENSOR EASY INSTALL TO FLANGE | KELLY, CATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 3 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 1742 | 1 |
| 1741 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19116714 | ADJUSTABLE VISIBLE VANES FOR AN ADJUSTABLE GRILLE SHUTTER SYSTEM | SWENSON, BRIAN L | 3613 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18998649 | DEPLOYABLE FLEXIBLE FABRIC SPOILER FOR VEHICLE | ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | 3612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19032569 | VEHICULAR PROJECTION DISPLAY AT WINDOW OF VEHICLE | CRUZ, MAGDA | 2882 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18997420 | AN ACTIVE AIR DEFLECTOR FOR A VEHICLE HAVING A MORPHABLE SURFACE | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 3612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18937911 | HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL VEHICLE PANEL ARRANGEMENTS | AKAKPO, DANY E | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18913259 | COMPOSITE LIFTGATE | PAPE, JOSEPH | 3612 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18888717 | RECYCLED GLASS IN SPRAY TRANSFER MOLDING | LIU, XUE H | 1742 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18844946 | METHOD OF PERFORMING ZONE ABLATION ON A POLYMER SUBSTRATE | FUNK, ERICA HARTSELL | 1741 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Sep 07, 2024 |
| 18320726 | METAL THERMOPLASTIC SANDWICH OVERMOLD | YANG, ZHEREN J | 1781 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 17919440 | ANTI-PINCH SENSOR EASY INSTALL TO FLANGE | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 3619 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialMagna Exteriors Inc. has 10 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 10 examiners.
Brian L Swenson has the most, with 1 of Magna Exteriors Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
