Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Dianba New Energy Technology Co. Ltd. has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different individual. These examiners are spread across 2 distinct art units.
WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners for the total actions shows a complete lack of examiner concentration in the current workload.
With 2 distinct art units involved, the 4 pending office actions are somewhat clustered technically. However, practitioners must still manage separate examiner relationships. Since WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS and the other examiners each have a single pending action, the prosecution is evenly distributed across the personnel. This distribution requires a strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of each examiner while maintaining consistency within the art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 1 | 77.6% | +26.5% |
| TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | 1 | 88.4% | +7.1% |
| KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 84.6% | +20.9% |
| GRANT, ROBERT J | 1 | 76.2% | +17.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18270218 | BATTERY SWAPPING STATION | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18575825 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY SWAPPING ASSEMBLY AND BATTERY SWAPPING STATION | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 23d |
| 18853418 | UNLOCKING ASSEMBLY | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17916293 | BATTERY SWAPPING METHOD | GRANT, ROBERT J | 2d overdue |
| 18575825 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY SWAPPING ASSEMBLY AND BATTERY SWAPPING STATION | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 23d |
| 18853418 | UNLOCKING ASSEMBLY | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3613 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18853418 | UNLOCKING ASSEMBLY | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18270218 | BATTERY SWAPPING STATION | TRAIL, ALLYSON NEEL | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18575825 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY SWAPPING ASSEMBLY AND BATTERY SWAPPING STATION | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 3613 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Dec 30, 2023 |
| 17916293 | BATTERY SWAPPING METHOD | GRANT, ROBERT J | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Apr 06, 2023 |
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