Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nio Technology (Anhui) Co. Ltd. maintains a patent portfolio with 4 pending office actions. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners, suggesting that each examiner is currently handling a unique application for the company. The prosecution activity is concentrated within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area.
The company's filings are spread across 3 distinct art units. This distribution indicates that while the technology area is consistent, the specific technical focuses of the applications require review from multiple specialized groups within the patent office. This variety in art units can influence the overall prosecution strategy as different units may have varying examination cultures.
MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This individual is currently managing 1 pending office action. Given the total volume of pending actions and examiners, the workload is evenly distributed, with no single examiner holding a majority of the open matters.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M | 1 | 76.6% | +51.0% |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.4% | +10.3% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 54.5% | +12.7% |
| HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588183 | VEHICLE HOOK CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REEL DISENGAGEMENT AND VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | 35d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18065231 | LIDAR APPARATUS, LIDAR DEVICE AND VEHICLE | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 35d overdue |
| 18307618 | LASER RADAR AND LASER RADAR-BASED DETECTION METHOD | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588183 | VEHICLE HOOK CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REEL DISENGAGEMENT AND VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | 35d overdue |
| 18678730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO VEHICLE SYSTEMS | MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M | 21d |
| 18307618 | LASER RADAR AND LASER RADAR-BASED DETECTION METHOD | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| 2439 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18678730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO VEHICLE SYSTEMS | MOHAMMADI, FAHIMEH M | 2439 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18588183 | VEHICLE HOOK CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REEL DISENGAGEMENT AND VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18307618 | LASER RADAR AND LASER RADAR-BASED DETECTION METHOD | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2023 |
| 18065231 | LIDAR APPARATUS, LIDAR DEVICE AND VEHICLE | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
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