Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that almost every pending action is being handled by a different examiner, often in a different administrative unit. The presence of 5 pending office actions suggests a moderate and active engagement with the patent office in the transportation sector.
The busiest examiner, DANG, TINH, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed with each examiner handling exactly 1 action. This suggests a highly diversified prosecution landscape across the 4 distinct art units involved. For the company, this means that their 5 pending office actions are subject to the individual interpretations of 5 different examiners. The use of 4 distinct art units further implies that the technical subject matter is broad enough to span multiple specialized divisions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DANG, TINH | 1 | 85.3% | +7.9% |
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 1 | 76.0% | +2.2% |
| STECKBAUER, KEVIN R | 1 | 82.0% | +7.7% |
| MILLER, LEAH NICOLE | 1 | 54.3% | -4.7% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838827 | TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | STECKBAUER, KEVIN R | — |
| 18713964 | FRONT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851934 | BOTTOM STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE | DANG, TINH | — |
| 18728314 | HYBRID VEHICLE | MILLER, LEAH NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851934 | BOTTOM STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE | DANG, TINH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18846547 | HYBRID VEHICLE | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18838827 | TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE | STECKBAUER, KEVIN R | 3747 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18728314 | HYBRID VEHICLE | MILLER, LEAH NICOLE | 3663 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18713964 | FRONT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
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