Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
50 pending office actions • 27 art units • 48 examiners • 0 of 50 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 155 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mercedes-Benz Group AG has 51 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 49 distinct examiners, showing almost no examiner overlap within the current pending set. The portfolio is distributed across 28 distinct art units, which suggests a high degree of technical variety for each application.
AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 2 pending office actions. With 51 total pending office actions and 49 distinct examiners, the company rarely has the opportunity to apply lessons learned from one examiner to another pending case. The involvement of 28 distinct art units indicates that the company's transportation innovations are being reviewed by many different specialized groups at the USPTO. This requires the prosecution team to navigate 49 different examiner perspectives across 28 specialized divisions, necessitating a highly tailored approach for each filing in the transportation sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 only | 2 (4%) |
| §101 + other | 9 (18%) |
| §103 only | 17 (34%) |
| §102 only | 3 (6%) |
| §112 only | 4 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 15 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 2 | 16.7% | +5.7% |
| REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | 2 | 90.9% | +9.5% |
| DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | 1 | 80.3% | +18.6% |
| IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 1 | 81.4% | -5.7% |
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 1 | 76.0% | +2.2% |
| TUMEBO, TSION M | 1 | 66.5% | +20.2% |
| ANWARI, MACEEH | 1 | 81.1% | +5.8% |
| HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 1 | 50.0% | +20.8% |
| ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF | 1 | 40.2% | +5.7% |
| MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | 1 | 68.5% | +12.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19155729 | METHOD FOR REDUCING OR AVOIDING KINETOSIS | ANWARI, MACEEH | — |
| 19111960 | HEATING SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | — |
| 19111953 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEATING SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18128569 | VEHICLE MONITORING AND SENSOR CALIBRATION TRIGGERING SYSTEM | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 92d overdue |
| 19140686 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDIVIDUALLY ASSIGNING AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE FUNCTION SCHEME TO AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 1d overdue |
| 18722316 | APPARATUS FOR SECURING COMMUNICATION | PERVIN, NUZHAT | 14d |
| 18261972 | Air Outflow Device for Feeding Tempered Air For an Interior of a Motor Vehicle | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 21d |
| 19489962 | TAIL LIGHT AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF, AND VEHICLE | DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | — |
| 19477965 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE ELECTRICAL ACTUATION OF AN INNER DOOR OF A VEHICLE WITH A MECHANICAL EMERGENCY ACTUATION | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | — |
| 19155723 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE STATUS OF A VEHICLE, AND AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | — |
| 19153646 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TEST DATA FOR A SIMULATION OF AN ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASSISTED MOTOR VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE | ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19489962 | TAIL LIGHT AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF, AND VEHICLE | DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | — |
| 19164803 | HEADLIGHT ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE | TUMEBO, TSION M | — |
| 19155723 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE STATUS OF A VEHICLE, AND AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | — |
| 19125428 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE DRIVING SAFETY OF A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 4 |
| 3664 | 3 |
| 2875 | 2 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 3668 | 2 |
| 3661 | 2 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19489962 | TAIL LIGHT AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF, AND VEHICLE | DELAHOUSSAYE, KEITH G | 2875 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2025 |
| 19477965 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE ELECTRICAL ACTUATION OF AN INNER DOOR OF A VEHICLE WITH A MECHANICAL EMERGENCY ACTUATION | IGNACZEWSKI, JAMES EDWARD | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2025 |
| 19471881 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT AN AUTOMATED OVERTAKING MANEUVER OF A VEHICLE | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2025 |
| 19164803 | HEADLIGHT ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE | TUMEBO, TSION M | 2875 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2025 |
| 19155729 | METHOD FOR REDUCING OR AVOIDING KINETOSIS | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19155723 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AT LEAST ONE STATUS OF A VEHICLE, AND AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM | HARVEY II, KEVIN JEROME | 3664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19153646 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TEST DATA FOR A SIMULATION OF AN ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASSISTED MOTOR VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICE | ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF | 3667 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2025 |
| 19140686 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDIVIDUALLY ASSIGNING AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE FUNCTION SCHEME TO AT LEAST ONE VEHICLE | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 18, 2025 |
| 19125428 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE DRIVING SAFETY OF A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | 3666 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19123858 | METHOD FOR RELEASE FOR USE OF TELEMATICS SERVICES, MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD | BROWN, VERNAL U | 2686 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19122322 | ELECTRIC DRIVE DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | PERVIN, FARHANA | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 19118454 | METHOD FOR COMPRESSING AND DECOMPRESSING LOG FILES AND AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM | TRAN, ANHTAI V | 2168 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19118462 | DEVICE FOR THE OPERATION OF VEHICLE FUNCTIONS | SHAIKH, FARIS ASIM | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 19115332 | NOTIFICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR A VEHICLE-BASED MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE, AND VEHICLE HAVING A NOTIFICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | GOODBODY, JOAN T | 3664 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19111954 | Method and System for Smart Allocation of Charing Station and Computer Program Product | ZEROUAL, OMAR | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19111960 | HEATING SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19111953 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEATING SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19110915 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA SETS FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND A SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA SETS | TROOST, AARON L | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18996368 | METHOD FOR STATIC ALLOCATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF INFORMATION TO MEMORY AREAS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM AND VEHICLE | DARE, RYAN A | 2132 | §112 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18996174 | METHOD FOR STORING AN IDENTIFIER ON A CENTRAL COMPUTING DEVICE | AHSAN, SYED M | 2491 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18993067 | METHOD FOR CONNECTING A VEHICLE TO THE INTERNET | NGUYEN, HAI V | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2025 |
| 18880879 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING A CONTROL DEVICE OF A VEHICLE WITH A SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE | BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM | 2434 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18878166 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING LOG FILES, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND VEHICLE | PHAN, TUANKHANH D | 2154 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18877641 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING POSE INFORMATION IN AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE AND/OR ROBOT | NGUYEN, CUONG H | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18869416 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING AN INERTIAL MEASUREMENT SENSOR SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18869412 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DEGRADATION OF A LIDAR SENSOR | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18866185 | METHOD FOR ANONYMISING VEHICLE DATA | HEIM, MARK ROBERT | 3668 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18863906 | Wheel for a Motor Vehicle | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18858465 | VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ISSUING RECOMMENDATIONS TO A PERSON DRIVING THE VEHICLE TO TAKE OVER VEHICLE CONTROL | MIRZA, ADNAN M | 3667 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18854734 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING TRAJECTORIES OF OBJECTS | MILIA, MARK R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18852043 | METHOD FOR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF A REMAINING DISTANCE FOR A VEHICLE | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §112 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18725855 | METHOD FOR INCREASING THE USER COMFORT OF A VEHICLE OCCUPANT AND VEHICLE | DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18722316 | APPARATUS FOR SECURING COMMUNICATION | PERVIN, NUZHAT | 3648 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18717481 | CHARGING CONNECTION DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | QUIGLEY, THOMAS K | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18680765 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING VOICE ASSISTANCE IN A VEHICLE | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18708386 | Body-in-White with a Drive Battery | SCHUSTER, ALMA DONGFENG | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18702965 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING THE USER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | YANG, JIANXUN | 2662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Apr 19, 2024 |
| 18693592 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEFECTIVE CHARGING STATIONS | LEE, PAUL D | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18689220 | Battery Module Having Several Individual Battery Cells | ALEJANDRO, RAYMOND | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18686274 | Bearing Assembly of a Refrigerant Compressor on a Chassis of a Motor Vehicle, as Well as a Motor Vehicle | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18682677 | Method for Monitoring Temperature, Electrical Energy Storage System and at Least Partially Electric Vehicle | LE, JOHN H | 2857 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18294687 | METHOD FOR HEATING A BATTERY, AND A BATTERY | BROWN, MADISON ELIZABETH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18570163 | METHOD FOR AT LEAST ONE MOBILE DEVICE TO COMMUNICATE WITH A MOBILE NETWORK BASE STATION | JIANG, CHARLES C | 2400 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
| 18530579 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) CHARGING METHOD, EV CHARGER, AND EV | KIM, AHSHIK | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18558865 | Electrical Energy Storage Device | BERMUDEZ, CHARLENE | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18255452 | CHARGING SYSTEM, VOLTAGE CONVERTER UNIT, AND ACCUMULATOR UNIT | DIAO, M BAYE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18275040 | A METHOD FOR VIRTUAL TESTING OF A HEAD UNIT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE BY A VIRTUAL TEST BENCH AS WELL AS A CORRESPONDING VIRTUAL TEST BENCH | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18261972 | Air Outflow Device for Feeding Tempered Air For an Interior of a Motor Vehicle | WEINERT, WILLIAM C | 3762 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Jul 18, 2023 |
| 18128569 | VEHICLE MONITORING AND SENSOR CALIBRATION TRIGGERING SYSTEM | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 92d overdue | Pending | Mar 30, 2023 |
| 18076574 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING INTERSECTIONS BASED ON SENSOR DATA FROM FLEET VEHICLES | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
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