Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
13 pending office actions • 7 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Motherson Innovation Company Limited has 13 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these 13 actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 13 distinct examiners for the portfolio. These matters are distributed across 7 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's semiconductor and optics work is spread through several different technical groups at the USPTO. The variety of 7 distinct art units suggests that the 13 pending office actions cover diverse technical sub-fields.
Sean P Gramling is the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there are 13 distinct examiners for the 13 total actions, no examiner handles more than 1 case. The 7 distinct art units involved show that the 13 pending office actions are not concentrated in a single administrative area. This distribution requires the company to manage 13 unique examiner relationships across 7 different art units. Each of the 13 pending office actions is subject to the individual perspective of a different examiner, necessitating a case-specific approach to prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 7 (54%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAMLING, SEAN P | 1 | 66.5% | +28.1% |
| KHATIB, RAMI | 1 | 77.1% | +13.9% |
| CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1 | 62.3% | -15.5% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
| SAHAND, SANA | 1 | 63.4% | +23.8% |
| FLOHRE, JASON A | 1 | 68.8% | +18.2% |
| WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| QURESHI, MARIAM | 1 | 75.5% | +22.3% |
| NGUYEN, LAUREN | 1 | 54.8% | +34.3% |
| HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 1 | 67.5% | +7.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18188815 | MEMORY MODULE, ACTUATOR, REAR VIEW DEVICE AND VEHICLE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 32d overdue |
| 18158589 | Exterior rear view assembly for road vehicles and method of manufacturing an exterior rear view assembly for road vehicles | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 16d |
| 18960027 | DECORATIVE ANTIQUE COPPER COATING WITH HTL COMPATIBILITY AND NOVEL INTER-LAYER ADHESION MECHANISM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 35d |
| 19123113 | Lighting Device, Rear-View Device and Motor Vehicle | GRAMLING, SEAN P | — |
| 19092682 | Vehicle safety and/or driver assistance method, arrangement and data processing program product using connectable road vehicle image capturing system | KHATIB, RAMI | — |
| 18749851 | Display Device With Moisture Detection Apparatus And Method For Operating Same, An Exterior Mirror, And A Motor Vehicle | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18443470 | REAR-VIEW ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLES | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 22d |
| 18960027 | DECORATIVE ANTIQUE COPPER COATING WITH HTL COMPATIBILITY AND NOVEL INTER-LAYER ADHESION MECHANISM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 35d |
| 19123113 | Lighting Device, Rear-View Device and Motor Vehicle | GRAMLING, SEAN P | — |
| 19092682 | Vehicle safety and/or driver assistance method, arrangement and data processing program product using connectable road vehicle image capturing system | KHATIB, RAMI | — |
| 18912734 | Wearable Light Therapy Device | SAHAND, SANA | — |
| 18906883 | ACTIVATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A NIGHT MODE IN CAMERA MONITORING APPLICATIONS | FLOHRE, JASON A | — |
| 18423934 | OPTICAL SYSTEM ASSEMBLY FOR A CAMERA DEVICE | QURESHI, MARIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2871 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 2484 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19123113 | Lighting Device, Rear-View Device and Motor Vehicle | GRAMLING, SEAN P | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
| 19092682 | Vehicle safety and/or driver assistance method, arrangement and data processing program product using connectable road vehicle image capturing system | KHATIB, RAMI | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
| 19068331 | Method for Detecting Dirt and Cleaning with Piezo Transducer, Device, Automotive Part and Vehicle | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
| 18960027 | DECORATIVE ANTIQUE COPPER COATING WITH HTL COMPATIBILITY AND NOVEL INTER-LAYER ADHESION MECHANISM | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18912734 | Wearable Light Therapy Device | SAHAND, SANA | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18906883 | ACTIVATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A NIGHT MODE IN CAMERA MONITORING APPLICATIONS | FLOHRE, JASON A | 2637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18749851 | Display Device With Moisture Detection Apparatus And Method For Operating Same, An Exterior Mirror, And A Motor Vehicle | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18423934 | OPTICAL SYSTEM ASSEMBLY FOR A CAMERA DEVICE | QURESHI, MARIAM | 2871 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18443470 | REAR-VIEW ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLES | NGUYEN, LAUREN | 2871 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18188815 | MEMORY MODULE, ACTUATOR, REAR VIEW DEVICE AND VEHICLE | HALL, ELIZABETH MARY CAMPBEL | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18178872 | Rear-View Camera Assembly | DANG, HUNG Q | 2484 | §103 | Final Rejection | 198d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18158589 | Exterior rear view assembly for road vehicles and method of manufacturing an exterior rear view assembly for road vehicles | ABDUR, RAHMAN | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 17948783 | DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE TRANSMISSION BEHAVIOR OF RADAR WAVES, EXTERNAL CLADDING COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH AN EXTERNAL CLADDING COMPONENT | BENJAMIN GOSLING, ANNA K | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Sep 20, 2022 |
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