Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH is currently managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is being reviewed by a different person. All 4 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for the company's current active cases.
SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action is the maximum number of cases assigned to any individual examiner in this set. The presence of 4 distinct examiners within a single art unit suggests that while the technology is concentrated, the workload is spread across multiple reviewers.
Practitioners should be prepared to handle 4 different examination styles for the 4 pending office actions, despite them all residing in 1 distinct art unit. Since the busiest examiner, SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER, only has 1 pending office action, there is no single examiner with a majority of the company's cases. This distribution of 4 pending office actions across 4 distinct examiners requires a case by case approach to prosecution within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.6% | +13.4% |
| MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 1 | 86.4% | +15.7% |
| BELLINGER, JASON R | 1 | 70.0% | +18.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18868241 | Rail Vehicle with Pneumatic Suspension | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18579079 | Large Component for a Rail Vehicle | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287901 | Wheel for a Chassis of a Rail Vehicle, Chassis for Rail Vehicles and Method for Producing the Wheel for the Chassis of the Rail Vehicle | BELLINGER, JASON R | 7d |
| 18696727 | Rail Vehicle Having a Carriage Coupling Device | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18287901 | Wheel for a Chassis of a Rail Vehicle, Chassis for Rail Vehicles and Method for Producing the Wheel for the Chassis of the Rail Vehicle | BELLINGER, JASON R | 7d |
| 18868241 | Rail Vehicle with Pneumatic Suspension | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| 18696727 | Rail Vehicle Having a Carriage Coupling Device | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — |
| 18579079 | Large Component for a Rail Vehicle | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18868241 | Rail Vehicle with Pneumatic Suspension | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 22, 2024 |
| 18696727 | Rail Vehicle Having a Carriage Coupling Device | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18579079 | Large Component for a Rail Vehicle | MESHAKA, MAXWELL L | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18287901 | Wheel for a Chassis of a Rail Vehicle, Chassis for Rail Vehicles and Method for Producing the Wheel for the Chassis of the Rail Vehicle | BELLINGER, JASON R | 3615 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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