Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
SmartDrive Systems Inc. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling a matter. This distribution requires the applicant to adapt to three different personal styles and examination approaches within the portfolio.
The prosecution is distributed across 2 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's innovations fall into at least two different technical classifications. Practitioners must account for the different examination standards between these 2 units. The variety of art units suggests that the portfolio's technical scope is not limited to a single specialized niche.
FIGUEROA, JAIME is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 3 pending actions are evenly distributed among the examiners. No single examiner has a concentrated influence over the current pending portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the individual requirements of each official to move the applications forward.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (25%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIGUEROA, JAIME | 1 | 85.4% | +13.1% |
| YIP, JACK | 1 | 33.0% | +37.8% |
| ELARABI, TAREK A | 1 | 69.5% | +36.3% |
| NIEVES FLORES, NEIT JOSAFAT | 1 | 38.5% | +80.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SPEED THRESHOLDS FOR VEHICLES | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — |
| 18614132 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A SITTING DUCK SCENARIO | ELARABI, TAREK A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18633038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING DRIVING PERFORMANCE FOR SIMULATED DRIVING | YIP, JACK | 13d |
| 19229088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SPEED THRESHOLDS FOR VEHICLES | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — |
| 18614132 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A SITTING DUCK SCENARIO | ELARABI, TAREK A | — |
| 18169059 | MEASURING OPERATOR READINESS AND READINESS TESTING TRIGGERING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | NIEVES FLORES, NEIT JOSAFAT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19229088 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SPEED THRESHOLDS FOR VEHICLES | FIGUEROA, JAIME | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 18633038 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPARING DRIVING PERFORMANCE FOR SIMULATED DRIVING | YIP, JACK | 3715 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18614132 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING A SITTING DUCK SCENARIO | ELARABI, TAREK A | 3661 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18169059 | MEASURING OPERATOR READINESS AND READINESS TESTING TRIGGERING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | NIEVES FLORES, NEIT JOSAFAT | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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