Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polestar Performance AB currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, which suggests multiple perspectives on the company's applications. Despite the multiple examiners involved, all of the company's actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current innovations in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field are being evaluated within a single administrative group.
The busiest examiner identified is KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE, who is currently assigned 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is spread across the assigned staff. This structure requires the company to address the specific requirements of 3 different individuals while operating within the framework of the assigned art unit. Practitioners must manage the arguments presented to each assigned examiner, as these individuals operate within the same unit and oversee the company's related patent filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | 1 | 84.4% | +10.4% |
| HA, STEVEN S | 1 | 70.2% | +30.0% |
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725008 | TIRE ORIENTATION AND PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT TO BALANCE TRACTION AND RANGE | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686360 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY BUS BAR TEMPERATURE REGULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HA, STEVEN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18725008 | TIRE ORIENTATION AND PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT TO BALANCE TRACTION AND RANGE | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — |
| 18686360 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY BUS BAR TEMPERATURE REGULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HA, STEVEN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18725008 | TIRE ORIENTATION AND PRESSURE ADJUSTMENT TO BALANCE TRACTION AND RANGE | KIRKLAND III, FREDDIE | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18686360 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY BUS BAR TEMPERATURE REGULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | HA, STEVEN S | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18554410 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REAR BRAKE COOLING | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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