Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (Uk) Limited currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating the technical focus within the USPTO structure. The concentration in those 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's braking system innovations are categorized into specific technical clusters.
The prosecution workload involves 5 distinct examiners. AUNG, SAN M is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This distribution reflects exposure to different examiner perspectives, as the 5 distinct examiners each apply their own interpretation of the art unit standards. Managing 1 pending office action per examiner requires the company to adapt to different individual prosecution styles for its 5 pending office actions. The presence of AUNG, SAN M as the busiest examiner highlights the specific oversight for a portion of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUNG, SAN M | 1 | 77.7% | +20.4% |
| IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 1 | 80.0% | -32.1% |
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.7% |
| MORRIS, DAVID R. | 1 | 81.9% | +14.3% |
| RUFO, RYAN C | 1 | 58.9% | +40.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18474432 | DISC BRAKE | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING THE RUNNING CLEARANCE OF A DISC BRAKE | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 16d overdue |
| 18455085 | CALIPER GUIDE ASSEMBLY | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 39d |
| 17942256 | MACHINE TOOL HEAD | RUFO, RYAN C | 72d |
| 18629327 | GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE | AUNG, SAN M | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18299338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING THE RUNNING CLEARANCE OF A DISC BRAKE | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 16d overdue |
| 17942256 | MACHINE TOOL HEAD | RUFO, RYAN C | 72d |
| 18629327 | GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE | AUNG, SAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 3 |
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18629327 | GUIDE ASSEMBLY FOR A DISC BRAKE | AUNG, SAN M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 18474432 | DISC BRAKE | IRVIN, SHEA WOODROW | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2023 |
| 18455085 | CALIPER GUIDE ASSEMBLY | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Aug 24, 2023 |
| 18299338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING THE RUNNING CLEARANCE OF A DISC BRAKE | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 3616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 17942256 | MACHINE TOOL HEAD | RUFO, RYAN C | 3722 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Sep 12, 2022 |
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