Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maxion Wheels Holding GmbH is currently navigating 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution of these matters involves 4 distinct examiners. These filings are contained within 2 distinct art units, which indicates technical grouping in the company's current mechanical and transportation-related patent pursuits.
COMINO, EVA L is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is fewer than the 4 total pending office actions, as the workload is divided among 4 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that while the distinct examiners provide a variety of reviews, the concentration in 2 distinct art units may lead to consistent thematic requirements across the active matters. This balance between examiner diversity and art unit concentration defines the company's current prosecution landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COMINO, EVA L | 1 | 70.4% | +32.3% |
| LEE, TYLER J | 1 | 91.8% | +6.7% |
| BELLINGER, JASON R | 1 | 70.0% | +18.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691174 | WHEEL DISC FOR A DISC WHEEL AND A DISC WHEEL THEREWITH | LEE, TYLER J | 5d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841802 | WHEEL DISC FOR VEHICLE WHEELS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND VEHICLE WHEEL | COMINO, EVA L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18841802 | WHEEL DISC FOR VEHICLE WHEELS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND VEHICLE WHEEL | COMINO, EVA L | — |
| 18144317 | VEHICLE WHEEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A WHEEL | BELLINGER, JASON R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18841802 | WHEEL DISC FOR VEHICLE WHEELS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND VEHICLE WHEEL | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18691174 | WHEEL DISC FOR A DISC WHEEL AND A DISC WHEEL THEREWITH | LEE, TYLER J | 3663 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
| 18144317 | VEHICLE WHEEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A WHEEL | BELLINGER, JASON R | 3615 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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