Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Superior Industries International Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 1 art unit, concentrating the portfolio within a shared art-unit setting while distributing it among examiners.
KOTTER, KIP T is the busiest examiner listed, with 2 pending matters. Counsel can compare prosecution developments within the common art unit and coordinate the matters handled by that examiner, while keeping the remaining responses specific to their assigned examiner.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTTER, KIP T | 2 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
| BELLINGER, JASON R | 1 | 70.0% | +18.7% |
| COMINO, EVA L | 1 | 70.4% | +32.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143094 | MULTI-COLOR VEHICLE WHEEL USING LASER COATING ABLATION | KOTTER, KIP T | 39d |
| 18865212 | ALLOY WHEEL WITH TINTED OVERCOATING | BELLINGER, JASON R | — |
| 18025821 | VEHICLE WHEEL HAVING MULTI-GLOSS FINISH | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18143094 | MULTI-COLOR VEHICLE WHEEL USING LASER COATING ABLATION | KOTTER, KIP T | 39d |
| 18865212 | ALLOY WHEEL WITH TINTED OVERCOATING | BELLINGER, JASON R | — |
| 18025821 | VEHICLE WHEEL HAVING MULTI-GLOSS FINISH | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
| 17767881 | DECORATIVE APPLIQUE WITH POLYMERIC OVER-COATING AND METHOD OF APPLYING SAME | COMINO, EVA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865212 | ALLOY WHEEL WITH TINTED OVERCOATING | BELLINGER, JASON R | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18143094 | MULTI-COLOR VEHICLE WHEEL USING LASER COATING ABLATION | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | May 04, 2023 |
| 18025821 | VEHICLE WHEEL HAVING MULTI-GLOSS FINISH | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2023 |
| 17767881 | DECORATIVE APPLIQUE WITH POLYMERIC OVER-COATING AND METHOD OF APPLYING SAME | COMINO, EVA L | 3615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 09, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSuperior Industries International Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Kip T Kotter has the most, with 2 of Superior Industries International Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
