Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Model I Commercial Vehicles Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patent office interactions. The focus within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being pursued is specialized and falls under a specific set of examination guidelines within the transportation field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is GUTMAN, HILARY L, who is overseeing the 1 pending office action. Because the company is only dealing with 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this examiner to effectively manage the 1 pending office action. This centralized prosecution structure allows for a very targeted strategy, but it also means that the company does not have other pending matters to balance out any difficulties encountered with this 1 distinct examiner. Effectively managing this 1 pending office action is critical for the company's current intellectual property objectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUTMAN, HILARY L | 1 | 71.7% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209060 | DRIVER BARRIER | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 22d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18209060 | DRIVER BARRIER | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18209060 | DRIVER BARRIER | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 3612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialModel I Commercial Vehicles Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Hilary L Gutman has the most, with 1 of Model I Commercial Vehicles Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
