Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Yanfeng Jinqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd. is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This volume of activity indicates a significant and ongoing effort to protect its intellectual property. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which provides the company with a variety of perspectives and reduces the risk associated with a single examiner's review style.
The portfolio's reach extends across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse range of technical focuses within the communications field. BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 2 pending office actions. This means that while there are 3 distinct examiners involved, half of the 4 pending actions are concentrated under a single individual's review. This concentration with a single examiner across multiple art units could lead to more consistent outcomes for a significant portion of the company's pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2 | 67.9% | +35.0% |
| ROGERS, ADAM D | 1 | 82.1% | +22.7% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 60.9% | +38.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18632618 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | ROGERS, ADAM D | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17403363 | VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 22d overdue |
| 18207140 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 9d |
| 18417109 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 34d |
| 18632618 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | ROGERS, ADAM D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 2 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18632618 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | ROGERS, ADAM D | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18417109 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18207140 | COMPONENT FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR | BEARD, CHARLES LLOYD | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 17403363 | VEHICLE INTERIOR COMPONENT | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2021 |
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