Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Opmobility SE has 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a moderate level of technical diversity in the pending applications. The portfolio is handled by 6 distinct examiners, ensuring that no two pending actions are currently being reviewed by the same person, which provides a variety of perspectives on the company's filings.
ZHANG, HAI Y is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions, the company must manage six different examiner relationships simultaneously. The distribution across 4 distinct art units suggests that the prosecution strategy should be adapted to the specific requirements of each unit within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Practitioners should coordinate their efforts to ensure that the 6 pending office actions move forward efficiently despite the involvement of 6 distinct examiners.
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 (17%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, HAI Y | 1 | 68.7% | +42.6% |
| LE, HAILEY R | 1 | 81.1% | +9.6% |
| LI, YONGHONG | 1 | 76.5% | +22.0% |
| THOMAS, JASMINE JAMES | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ZHUO, WENWEI | 1 | 79.2% | +7.2% |
| CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18687123 | RADAR SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, HAILEY R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545402 | FRONT FACE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE | ZHUO, WENWEI | 6d |
| 18535449 | MOTOR VEHICLE BODY PANEL | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 22d |
| 18989506 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TRANSPARENT OR TRANSLUCENT VEHICLE PART | ZHANG, HAI Y | — |
| 18437893 | TRIM PANEL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING A LIGHT TRANSMISSION ZONE AND A MASKING ZONE | THOMAS, JASMINE JAMES | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686698 | RADAR SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED BODYWORK PART AND VEHICLE | LI, YONGHONG | 20d |
| 18989506 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TRANSPARENT OR TRANSLUCENT VEHICLE PART | ZHANG, HAI Y | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 2 |
| 3612 | 2 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989506 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A TRANSPARENT OR TRANSLUCENT VEHICLE PART | ZHANG, HAI Y | 1717 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18687123 | RADAR SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | LE, HAILEY R | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18686698 | RADAR SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED BODYWORK PART AND VEHICLE | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §102§103§112DP | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18437893 | TRIM PANEL FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING A LIGHT TRANSMISSION ZONE AND A MASKING ZONE | THOMAS, JASMINE JAMES | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 09, 2024 |
| 18545402 | FRONT FACE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE | ZHUO, WENWEI | 3612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18535449 | MOTOR VEHICLE BODY PANEL | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 3612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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