Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
19 pending office actions • 13 art units • 18 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 63 patents granted in the last 365 days
Steering Solutions Ip Holding Corporation maintains a diverse patent portfolio with 18 pending office actions concentrated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The distribution of these actions across 17 distinct examiners suggests a broad prosecution front where individual examiner tendencies will vary significantly. This distribution indicates that most matters are being handled independently rather than being clustered under a few specific individuals.
The portfolio spans 12 distinct art units, reflecting a wide technical scope within its primary technology area. BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M is identified as the busiest examiner, though she is only responsible for 2 of the 18 pending office actions. This low concentration of work with the busiest examiner reinforces the need for a decentralized prosecution strategy that addresses the specific requirements of the various art units.
With 17 distinct examiners currently active, the legal team must navigate a complex landscape. The presence of 12 distinct art units suggests that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems innovations being pursued are multifaceted. Managing the 2 pending actions with BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M represents only a small fraction of the total workload, requiring broad expertise across the various examining groups involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 | 2 (11%) |
| §103 only | 7 (37%) |
| §102 only | 2 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (37%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 2 | 67.0% | +14.1% |
| LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 1 | 79.6% | +9.5% |
| REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 1 | 69.4% | +13.2% |
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.3% |
| PAN, HANG | 1 | 74.7% | +25.6% |
| DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 1 | 50.0% | +75.0% |
| NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.7% | +28.8% |
| TA, THO DAC | 1 | 86.4% | +15.2% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
| PHAM, LEDA T | 1 | 74.8% | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18807397 | CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17988586 | POSITION HOLD TO STRUCTURE/OBJECT FEATURE FOR THRUSTER EQUIPPED WATERCRAFT | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 53d overdue |
| 18075595 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONBOARD VEHICLE CENTER OF GRAVITY AND MOMENT OF INERTIA ESTIMATION | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 18d overdue |
| 18644914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CENTRALIZED DATA MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE MODELS | DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 56d |
| 18644910 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF MODELS | PAN, HANG | — |
| 18422222 | SURFACE TREATMENT FOR ADHESION OF ELECTRICAL TERMINALS AND METHOD OF FORMING | TA, THO DAC | — |
| 18416062 | FASTENERS FOR FASTENING CIRCUIT CARDS | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| 18358095 | HEADER ASSEMBLY WITH INTEGRATED CHOKE FOR POWER PACK | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | — |
| 17987437 | LASER TEXTURED FRICTION SURFACE FOR INTERFACING COMPONENTS | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18406760 | TRANSVERSE FLUX MACHINE WITH ASYMMETRIC STATOR | PHAM, LEDA T | 45d overdue |
| 18812073 | STEERING EFFORT HYSTERESIS SHAPING FOR STEER-BY-WIRE AND CLOSED-LOOP ELECTRIC POWER STEERING | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 30d overdue |
| 18128064 | ANTI-ROTATION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 30d |
| 18644914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CENTRALIZED DATA MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE MODELS | DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 56d |
| 18807397 | CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18644910 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF MODELS | PAN, HANG | — |
| 18627951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TORQUE SENSOR HYSTERESIS COMPENSATION | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | — |
| 18422222 | SURFACE TREATMENT FOR ADHESION OF ELECTRICAL TERMINALS AND METHOD OF FORMING | TA, THO DAC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2834 | 3 |
| 3747 | 2 |
| 3611 | 2 |
| 3665 | 2 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| 2193 | 1 |
| 2199 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014881 | MODELED DYNAMICS LOW SPEED STEERING ANGLE LEARNING | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18812073 | STEERING EFFORT HYSTERESIS SHAPING FOR STEER-BY-WIRE AND CLOSED-LOOP ELECTRIC POWER STEERING | REINBOLD, SCOTT A | 3747 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18807397 | CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 3678 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18644910 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF MODELS | PAN, HANG | 2193 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18644914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CENTRALIZED DATA MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE MODELS | DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 2199 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18627951 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TORQUE SENSOR HYSTERESIS COMPENSATION | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18422222 | SURFACE TREATMENT FOR ADHESION OF ELECTRICAL TERMINALS AND METHOD OF FORMING | TA, THO DAC | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2024 |
| 18416062 | FASTENERS FOR FASTENING CIRCUIT CARDS | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18406760 | TRANSVERSE FLUX MACHINE WITH ASYMMETRIC STATOR | PHAM, LEDA T | 2834 | §102 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18481003 | TRANSVERSE FLUX MACHINE WITH ASYMMETRIC WINDINGS | RODRIGUEZ, JOSHUA KIEL MIGUEL | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18460009 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING THERMAL PROTECTION FOR STEERING SYSTEMS | OSTERHOUT, SHELLEY MARIE | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18358095 | HEADER ASSEMBLY WITH INTEGRATED CHOKE FOR POWER PACK | LIAN, MANG TIN BIK | 2837 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18317850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A PARTITIONED DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH A CONSTRAINED DATA CAP | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | May 15, 2023 |
| 18128064 | ANTI-ROTATION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18075595 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONBOARD VEHICLE CENTER OF GRAVITY AND MOMENT OF INERTIA ESTIMATION | GRIFFIN, ALEX BROCK | 3665 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
| 18071892 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE ANALYTICS | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 3665 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17988586 | POSITION HOLD TO STRUCTURE/OBJECT FEATURE FOR THRUSTER EQUIPPED WATERCRAFT | SILVA, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3663 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 53d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17987437 | LASER TEXTURED FRICTION SURFACE FOR INTERFACING COMPONENTS | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2022 |
| 17829592 | UNDER-HOOD STEERING GEAR SEAL INTEGRITY DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND TEST METHOD TECHNICAL FIELD | PARCO JR, RUBEN C | 2853 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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