Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mazda Motor Corporation

18 pending office actions • 13 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 99 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

18
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
6
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (6)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

2
Hard (11%)
13
Medium (72%)
2
Easy (11%)
1
Unknown (6%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (11%)
§103 only12 (67%)
§102 only1 (6%)
§112 only2 (11%)
No statute on record1 (6%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
11% of docket
3
Information Tech
17% of docket
1
Communications
6% of docket
5
Semiconductors
28% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
39% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

180 h
Manual time on pending OAs
36 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
63 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 2 84.8% +9.6%
SEYE, ABDOU K 2 82.3% +27.5%
AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY 1 79.7% +17.6%
LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY 1 79.8% +16.1%
KLEINMAN, LAIL A 1 69.1% +17.4%
DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1 63.4% +19.7%
WANG, YI-KAI 1 83.5% +9.2%
MAHASE, PAMESHANAND 1 71.8% +25.3%
GUGGER, SEAN A 1 64.5% +22.9%
ALMAWRI, MAGED M 1 74.7% +22.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18661183 VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 35d overdue
18287892 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD SEYE, ABDOU K 22d overdue
18287914 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD SEYE, ABDOU K 11d overdue
18660613 VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 83d

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18940850 DRIVER ABNORMALITY SIGN DETECTION DEVICE MAHASE, PAMESHANAND 17d overdue
18940911 DRIVER ABNORMALITY SIGN DETECTION DEVICE WANG, YI-KAI 8d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18651708 MOTOR GUGGER, SEAN A 58d overdue
18287892 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD SEYE, ABDOU K 22d overdue
18940850 DRIVER ABNORMALITY SIGN DETECTION DEVICE MAHASE, PAMESHANAND 17d overdue
18287914 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD SEYE, ABDOU K 11d overdue
18613171 MOTOR BEARING SYSTEM ALMAWRI, MAGED M 21d
19017827 AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE AND AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE KLEINMAN, LAIL A 28d
19221944 POWERTRAIN CONTROL DEVICE AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY 29d
19046570 FUEL REFORMING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY 29d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 4
3747 2
2198 2
3746 1
3668 1
1717 1
2689 1
3791 1
2838 1
2196 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19221944 POWERTRAIN CONTROL DEVICE AYALA DELGADO, ANTHONY 3746 §102 Non-Final OA 29d Pending May 29, 2025
19046570 FUEL REFORMING SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY 3747 Other Non-Final OA 29d Pending Feb 06, 2025
19017827 AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE AND AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE KLEINMAN, LAIL A 3668 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jan 13, 2025
18864260 METHOD FOR PRODUCING MULTILAYER COATING FILM, AND MULTILAYER COATING FILM DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1717 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 08, 2024
18940911 DRIVER ABNORMALITY SIGN DETECTION DEVICE WANG, YI-KAI 3747 §101 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18940850 DRIVER ABNORMALITY SIGN DETECTION DEVICE MAHASE, PAMESHANAND 2689 §101 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18661183 VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 2834 §112 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending May 10, 2024
18660613 VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEM QURESHI, MOHAMMED AHMED 2834 §103 Final Rejection 83d Pending May 10, 2024
18651708 MOTOR GUGGER, SEAN A 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending May 01, 2024
18613171 MOTOR BEARING SYSTEM ALMAWRI, MAGED M 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Mar 22, 2024
18591233 DRIVER ABNORMALITY SIGN DETECTION METHOD, DEVICE AND CIRCUIT THEREFOR XU, JUSTIN 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Feb 29, 2024
18496587 MULTI-PHASE INVERTER NASH, GARY A 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 27, 2023
18287914 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD SEYE, ABDOU K 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 11d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18287906 GRID COMPUTING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR AKBARI, FARAZ TIMA 2196 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18287892 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD SEYE, ABDOU K 2198 §103 Non-Final OA 22d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18551501 TUBULAR BODY AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TUBULAR BODY FIGG, LAURA B 1781 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Sep 20, 2023
17905845 OPPOSING ELECTRODE DETERMINATION METHOD, OPPOSING ELECTRODE DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND JIG USED IN SAME METHOD WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17900732 VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE TURNBAUGH, ASHLEIGH NICOLE 3666 §103 Non-Final OA 132d overdue Pending Aug 31, 2022

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