Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magna Steyr Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH & Co. Kg has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates some overlap in the personnel reviewing the company's applications. Because there are 5 pending office actions but only 4 distinct examiners, at least one examiner is handling more than one case, allowing for some consistency in communication with the patent office.
The company's active matters are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing that the workload is being processed by several different technical groups. The busiest examiner, PETTITT, JOHN F, is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner's workload represents a significant portion of the total pending office actions compared to the other 4 distinct examiners. Managing the portfolio across 3 distinct art units requires the company to monitor multiple examination trends, though the concentration of 2 actions with a single busiest examiner provides a focal point for the current prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 2 | 26.0% | +21.8% |
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 53.9% | +27.4% |
| DOLAK, JAMES M | 1 | 78.8% | +18.3% |
| DANG, TINH | 1 | 85.3% | +7.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18928434 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
| 18439188 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY | DOLAK, JAMES M | — |
| 18533562 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18527316 | MULTI-CRYOGENIC STORAGE SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18490899 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY | DANG, TINH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18928434 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
| 18439188 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY | DOLAK, JAMES M | — |
| 18533562 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| 18527316 | MULTI-CRYOGENIC STORAGE SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18928434 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18439188 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY | DOLAK, JAMES M | 3613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2024 |
| 18533562 | CRYOGENIC STORAGE SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18527316 | MULTI-CRYOGENIC STORAGE SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2023 |
| 18490899 | MOTOR VEHICLE WITH A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY | DANG, TINH | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2023 |
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