Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
19 pending office actions • 12 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 31 patents granted in the last 365 days
Scania CV AB maintains a broad prosecution presence in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently shows 18 pending office actions distributed across 18 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests a decentralized prosecution strategy where no examiner handles multiple active matters.
The pending office actions are spread across 11 distinct art units, indicating that the company's innovations touch upon various technical sub-specialties within its primary technology area. This distribution across 11 art units requires the applicant to navigate diverse examination standards and technical perspectives across the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is VORCE, AMELIA J.I., who has 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is only 1, the workload is distributed among the examiners. This lack of examiner concentration means that the outcome of any 1 office action has a limited impact on the overall portfolio status.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 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. 8 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 | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 7 (37%) |
| §102 only | 3 (16%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (32%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | 1 | 73.5% | +20.6% |
| MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 1 | 60.4% | +16.0% |
| WANG, YI-KAI | 1 | 83.7% | +9.4% |
| BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | 1 | 89.7% | +7.8% |
| PATEL, SHARDUL D | 1 | 87.4% | +12.3% |
| PATEL, PARESH H | 1 | 79.5% | -1.1% |
| BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 1 | 67.0% | +14.1% |
| HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 1 | 44.1% | +40.6% |
| HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 1 | 75.0% | +37.8% |
| FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 1 | 57.1% | +22.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19222378 | METHOD OF OUTPUTTING A NOTIFICATION IN A DRIVER ENVIRONMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, AND VEHICLE | BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | — |
| 19114647 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE SPEED | PATEL, SHARDUL D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18735841 | PREDICTIVE OVERTAKING SUPPORT | STECKBAUER, KEVIN R | 168d overdue |
| 18860119 | METHOD AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR WHEEL TORQUE-BASED VEHICLE OPERATION | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 9d overdue |
| 17909825 | COOLANT DISTRIBUTION MANIFOLD, PROPULSION BATTERY COOLING SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 27d |
| 19318627 | A METHOD OF A CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE SPEED, A CONTROL SYSTEM, AND A VEHICLE COMPRISING THE CONTROL SYSTEM | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | — |
| 19145249 | METHOD AND CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR ESTIMATING A CRANKCASE VENTILATION FLOW RATE | WANG, YI-KAI | — |
| 19104290 | FASTENING DEVICE AND GAS FUEL STORAGE ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE AND METHOD | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | — |
| 18279910 | AN ELECTRIC BATTERY JUNCTION ARRANGEMENT AND AN ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | KOUSAR, SADIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18860119 | METHOD AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR WHEEL TORQUE-BASED VEHICLE OPERATION | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 9d overdue |
| 18999989 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, AND VEHICLE | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 12d |
| 18983992 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, AND VEHICLE | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 14d |
| 19329899 | INCREASING FIELD OF VIEW THROUGH MOTION PATTERNS | VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | — |
| 19318627 | A METHOD OF A CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE SPEED, A CONTROL SYSTEM, AND A VEHICLE COMPRISING THE CONTROL SYSTEM | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | — |
| 19114647 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE SPEED | PATEL, SHARDUL D | — |
| 19104290 | FASTENING DEVICE AND GAS FUEL STORAGE ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE AND METHOD | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 3 |
| 3668 | 2 |
| 3664 | 2 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19329899 | INCREASING FIELD OF VIEW THROUGH MOTION PATTERNS | VORCE, AMELIA J.I. | 3666 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2025 |
| 19318627 | A METHOD OF A CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A VEHICLE SPEED, A CONTROL SYSTEM, AND A VEHICLE COMPRISING THE CONTROL SYSTEM | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 3668 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2025 |
| 19145249 | METHOD AND CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR ESTIMATING A CRANKCASE VENTILATION FLOW RATE | WANG, YI-KAI | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 02, 2025 |
| 19222378 | METHOD OF OUTPUTTING A NOTIFICATION IN A DRIVER ENVIRONMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, AND VEHICLE | BRUSHABER, FREDERICK M | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 19114647 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE SPEED | PATEL, SHARDUL D | 3664 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19113588 | VEHICLE ASSEMBLY, TRANSMISSION UNIT, AND VEHICLE | PATEL, PARESH H | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19104290 | FASTENING DEVICE AND GAS FUEL STORAGE ASSEMBLY AND VEHICLE AND METHOD | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 18999989 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, AND VEHICLE | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18983992 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF A VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROL ARRANGEMENT, AND VEHICLE | HARTMANN, ERIN MARIE | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18860119 | METHOD AND SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR WHEEL TORQUE-BASED VEHICLE OPERATION | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18911393 | CONTROL ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR DEACTIVATING AN ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE | REIDY, SEAN PATRICK | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18895609 | METHOD FOR REDUCING BACKLASH IN A VEHICLE AND CONTROL ARRANGENT CONFIGURED TO PERFORM THE METHOD | CAIN, AARON G | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18850094 | BATTERY PACK AND A VEHICLE COMPRISING A BATTERY PACK | JOHNS, HILARY LYNN | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18845989 | METHOD FOR CHARGING A MAINTENANCE BATTERY BY A PROPULSION BATTERY. | LEE, JUSTIN S | 3668 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18735841 | PREDICTIVE OVERTAKING SUPPORT | STECKBAUER, KEVIN R | 3747 | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | 168d overdue | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 18392367 | Method and Control Arrangement for Controlling a Speed of a Vehicle When Approaching and/or Travelling a Downhill Road Section | CROMER, ANDREW J | 3667 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18566702 | METHOD AND CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR LIMITING A SPEED REDUCTION OF A VEHICLE; VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM RELATED TO THE METHOD | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18279910 | AN ELECTRIC BATTERY JUNCTION ARRANGEMENT AND AN ELECTRICAL SYSTEM | KOUSAR, SADIA | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 17909825 | COOLANT DISTRIBUTION MANIFOLD, PROPULSION BATTERY COOLING SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 3763 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Sep 07, 2022 |
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