Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 47 patents granted in the last 365 days
Renault S.A.S. is managing 12 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio shows dispersion, with 12 distinct examiners and 11 distinct art units involved in the prosecution process. REECE ANTHONY WAKELY is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending action. Because there are 12 distinct examiners for 12 pending office actions, every pending matter is being reviewed by a different person.
The distribution across 11 distinct art units indicates that Renault's patent applications cover a wide variety of technical classifications within the broader transportation and mechanical systems sector. This breadth of 11 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovation strategy involves many different specialized components or systems rather than a single concentrated technology. Managing 12 pending office actions across many specialized examination groups requires the company to adapt to many different procedural approaches. This level of examiner and unit diversity means that the company's legal representatives must be prepared for a wide range of technical interpretations during the patent acquisition process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 + other | 2 (20%) |
| §103 only | 5 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | 1 | 23.8% | +94.1% |
| BABAA, NAEL N | 1 | 77.0% | +3.8% |
| TAT, BINH C | 1 | 87.3% | +14.2% |
| MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 1 | 15.0% | -1.1% |
| CHUANG, SU-TING | 1 | 51.3% | +39.4% |
| JACOB, WILLIAM J | 1 | 49.0% | +34.2% |
| OROZCO, MARIA F | 1 | 69.6% | +0.8% |
| D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1 | 68.1% | +41.8% |
| PHAM, CLINT V | 1 | 44.0% | +24.2% |
| AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 1 | 72.4% | +33.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18605421 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE LEVEL OF CHARGE OF A TRACTION BATTERY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TAT, BINH C | 16d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18571681 | REPAIR SITE TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND REPAIR SITE TRANSMISSION METHOD | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 14d |
| 18029841 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING COOLING STRUCTURE USING INSULATING OIL, AND BATTERY PACK AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SAME | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 20d |
| 18835898 | TRAVEL ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND TRAVEL ASSISTANCE METHOD | WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | — |
| 18867658 | CASSETTE FOR A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE CIRCULATION OF AN AIR FLOW OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND SHUTTER FOR SUCH A CASSETTE | BABAA, NAEL N | — |
| 18255474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MACHINE LEARNING-BASED VEHICLES | CHUANG, SU-TING | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18041364 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF THE LONGITUDINAL SPEED OF A VEHICLE | PHAM, CLINT V | 2d overdue |
| 18253599 | BATTERY CHARGER FOR MOTOR VEHICLE, ASSOCIATED VEHICLE AND IMPLEMENTATION METHOD | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 7d |
| 17639292 | POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 9d |
| 18605421 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE LEVEL OF CHARGE OF A TRACTION BATTERY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TAT, BINH C | 16d |
| 18029841 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING COOLING STRUCTURE USING INSULATING OIL, AND BATTERY PACK AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SAME | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 20d |
| 18835898 | TRAVEL ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND TRAVEL ASSISTANCE METHOD | WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | — |
| 18255474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MACHINE LEARNING-BASED VEHICLES | CHUANG, SU-TING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3667 | 1 |
| 2851 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2146 | 1 |
| 3696 | 1 |
| 1729 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 1752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835898 | TRAVEL ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND TRAVEL ASSISTANCE METHOD | WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 18867658 | CASSETTE FOR A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE CIRCULATION OF AN AIR FLOW OF A MOTOR VEHICLE AND SHUTTER FOR SUCH A CASSETTE | BABAA, NAEL N | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18605421 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE LEVEL OF CHARGE OF A TRACTION BATTERY OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | TAT, BINH C | 2851 | §102 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18571681 | REPAIR SITE TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND REPAIR SITE TRANSMISSION METHOD | MONTALVO, CARLOS FERNANDO | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18255474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MACHINE LEARNING-BASED VEHICLES | CHUANG, SU-TING | 2146 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18253599 | BATTERY CHARGER FOR MOTOR VEHICLE, ASSOCIATED VEHICLE AND IMPLEMENTATION METHOD | JACOB, WILLIAM J | 3696 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 18033541 | Positive Electrode Material for Electric Device, Positive Electrode for Electric Device and Electric Device Using Positive Electrode Material for Electric Device | OROZCO, MARIA F | 1729 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
| 18029841 | BATTERY MODULE HAVING COOLING STRUCTURE USING INSULATING OIL, AND BATTERY PACK AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SAME | D'ANIELLO, NICHOLAS P | 1723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18041364 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF THE LONGITUDINAL SPEED OF A VEHICLE | PHAM, CLINT V | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
| 17639292 | POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE | AMPONSAH, OSEI K | 1752 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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