Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
PIONEER Corporation maintains 9 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 9 actions are distributed across 9 distinct examiners, which means that every pending matter is currently being reviewed by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the company must manage 9 separate prosecution styles simultaneously. Despite this variety in personnel, the work is concentrated into 6 distinct art units, indicating some thematic clustering in the underlying mechanical and transportation systems.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since every examiner in this set handles 1 pending action, no single examiner holds more influence than another over the portfolio's progress. The presence of 6 art units suggests that while the technology is specialized, it spans several different classifications within the mechanical systems field. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of each of the 6 art units while adapting to the unique preferences of 9 different examiners. This distributed approach requires a broad strategy to ensure consistency across the various pending applications.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (33%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 1 | 51.7% | +39.7% |
| PENG, HUAWEN A | 1 | 82.3% | +20.4% |
| KIM, PETER B | 1 | 83.0% | +9.5% |
| WANG, KAI NMN | 1 | 55.3% | +14.2% |
| LIANG, HONGYE | 1 | 63.8% | +52.2% |
| THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 1 | 36.8% | +61.6% |
| STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 1 | 34.7% | +22.7% |
| PHUNG, LUAT | 1 | 76.3% | +11.9% |
| SHARMA, SHIVAM | 1 | 43.4% | +8.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19176016 | SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PENG, HUAWEN A | 10d overdue |
| 18689037 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 9d overdue |
| 19473697 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | — |
| 18926234 | SENSOR DEVICE AND HOUSING | KIM, PETER B | — |
| 18690548 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | LIANG, HONGYE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19176016 | SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PENG, HUAWEN A | 10d overdue |
| 18689037 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 9d overdue |
| 18038376 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM | PHUNG, LUAT | 28d |
| 19473697 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | — |
| 18690596 | DISPLAY DEVICE | WANG, KAI NMN | — |
| 18690548 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | LIANG, HONGYE | — |
| 18688680 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 3 |
| 3664 | 2 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2169 | 1 |
| 2882 | 1 |
| 2468 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19473697 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | ALZATEEMEH, HUSSAM ALDEEN | 3662 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2025 |
| 19176016 | SERVER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | PENG, HUAWEN A | 2169 | §101Other | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18926234 | SENSOR DEVICE AND HOUSING | KIM, PETER B | 2882 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18690596 | DISPLAY DEVICE | WANG, KAI NMN | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18690548 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE | LIANG, HONGYE | 3664 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18689037 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH | 3665 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18688680 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18038376 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM | PHUNG, LUAT | 2468 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18252114 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE | SHARMA, SHIVAM | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 117d overdue | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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