Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
MAN Truck & Bus SE has 6 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a 1 to 1 ratio of actions to examiners. MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action.
The portfolio is spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the 6 pending office actions cover a variety of technical sub-sectors within transportation and mechanical systems. Because each of the actions is handled by a different examiner, the company faces 6 unique sets of examiner preferences and styles. The involvement of 4 distinct art units further diversifies the prosecution environment.
Practitioners cannot rely on a single examiner's feedback to predict outcomes across the portfolio, as even MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER only manages 1 action. This broad distribution across 6 distinct examiners and 4 art units necessitates a case-by-case strategy for the pending workload.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | 1 | 60.2% | +10.8% |
| IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 1 | 80.0% | -32.1% |
| PARK, CHANMIN | 1 | 45.2% | +22.7% |
| KOUSAR, SADIA | 1 | 65.6% | +11.9% |
| LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1 | 72.2% | +36.2% |
| SAHNI, VISHAL R | 1 | 75.4% | +18.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17797698 | COMPRESSED-AIR MODULE SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 79d overdue |
| 18015047 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MECHANICAL STRESSES IN A TRACTION ENERGY STORE | KOUSAR, SADIA | 44d overdue |
| 18288529 | VEHICLE WITH A RETARDER BRAKE DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING BRAKING METHOD | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18268968 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAFELY PARKING A VEHICLE | PARK, CHANMIN | 154d overdue |
| 17797698 | COMPRESSED-AIR MODULE SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 79d overdue |
| 18015047 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MECHANICAL STRESSES IN A TRACTION ENERGY STORE | KOUSAR, SADIA | 44d overdue |
| 19235569 | FORCE-BASED DETERMINATION OF A SETPOINT GEAR COMBINATION FOR MULTIPLE DRIVE SYSTEMS | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | — |
| 17642659 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ENERGY STORE FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 1727 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19235569 | FORCE-BASED DETERMINATION OF A SETPOINT GEAR COMBINATION FOR MULTIPLE DRIVE SYSTEMS | MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 18288529 | VEHICLE WITH A RETARDER BRAKE DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING BRAKING METHOD | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18268968 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAFELY PARKING A VEHICLE | PARK, CHANMIN | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | Pending | Jun 21, 2023 |
| 18015047 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MECHANICAL STRESSES IN A TRACTION ENERGY STORE | KOUSAR, SADIA | 2859 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 17642659 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE TEMPERATURE OF AN ENERGY STORE FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | LA RAIA III, LAWRENCE | 1727 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2022 |
| 17797698 | COMPRESSED-AIR MODULE SYSTEM FOR A UTILITY VEHICLE | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 3616 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 79d overdue | Pending | Aug 04, 2022 |
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