Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rapa Automotive GmbH & Co. Kg is currently processing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus means the company's immediate patent office interactions are limited to a single administrative channel. Such a concentrated profile simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner communications.
MINKI CHANG serves as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner handles the current workload that constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office action before the patent office. Because the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural standards of that department. Success in this matter depends on understanding the specific examination style of this individual and the precedents established within their particular technical group.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, MINKI | 1 | 71.6% | +10.1% |
| AUNG, SAN M | 1 | 77.7% | +20.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594704 | ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTION KIT | CHANG, MINKI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594704 | ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTION KIT | CHANG, MINKI | — |
| 18591151 | SMART MAGNETIC VALVE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS | AUNG, SAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18594704 | ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTION KIT | CHANG, MINKI | 3616 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18591151 | SMART MAGNETIC VALVE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS | AUNG, SAN M | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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