Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 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. currently manages 3 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. These filings are situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing that while each action has a unique examiner, some examiners are working within the same technical groups.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BELLINGER, JASON R, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action represents a portion of the 3 total pending office actions currently active for the company. The use of the 3 distinct examiners for the pending actions indicates that the workload is fully distributed across different individuals at the patent office.
The 2 distinct art units involved suggest that the subject matter within Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems is being reviewed by different specialized sections. Because there are multiple examiners but only 2 art units, some examiners are likely operating within the same technical division. This structure provides the company with multiple points of contact across a limited number of technical groups.
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 | 67.9% | +21.4% |
| 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 | 3 |
| 1715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865212 | ALLOY WHEEL WITH TINTED OVERCOATING | BELLINGER, JASON R | 1715 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18143094 | MULTI-COLOR VEHICLE WHEEL USING LASER COATING ABLATION | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §102§103§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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