Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
SUZUKI MOTOR Corporation maintains a portfolio with 10 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are handled by 10 distinct examiners, demonstrating a broad distribution of the company's legal matters across various individuals at the patent office. While the examiner count is high, the work is concentrated within 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the applications fall into specific technical clusters.
LAM, ALEX W is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given the total volume and the number of distinct examiners, every examiner involved is responsible for a similar workload. This uniform distribution means that no single examiner holds a disproportionate share of the pending workload. Practitioners should note that while the actions are spread across many examiners, the limitation to 4 distinct art units indicates that the technical subject matter is more consolidated than the examiner assignments might suggest.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 3 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAM, ALEX W | 1 | 91.6% | +2.1% |
| AN, IG TAI | 1 | 56.9% | +24.7% |
| LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY | 1 | 80.2% | +15.9% |
| CHAN, KEVIN | 1 | — | — |
| BROWN, DREW J | 1 | 89.5% | +5.9% |
| FIGUEROA, MICHAEL KENN POTICANO | 1 | — | — |
| TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | 1 | 56.5% | +41.0% |
| COTEY, PHILIP L | 1 | 83.9% | +21.3% |
| DANIELS, JASON S | 1 | 85.7% | +15.1% |
| LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 1 | 79.6% | +9.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18792904 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE OF INTAKE AIR TEMPERATURE SENSOR | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 18735008 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR TURN SIGNAL LAMP | DANIELS, JASON S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024997 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR RESERVOIR TANK | LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY | 7d |
| 19202790 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | LAM, ALEX W | — |
| 19051707 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC PROPULSION MACHINE | AN, IG TAI | — |
| 18947719 | SHIP PROPULSION MACHINE | CHAN, KEVIN | — |
| 18818038 | ENGINE | BROWN, DREW J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19024997 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR RESERVOIR TANK | LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY | 7d |
| 19051707 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC PROPULSION MACHINE | AN, IG TAI | — |
| 18814884 | OUTBOARD MOTOR | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | — |
| 18792904 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE OF INTAKE AIR TEMPERATURE SENSOR | COTEY, PHILIP L | — |
| 18735008 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR TURN SIGNAL LAMP | DANIELS, JASON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 2 |
| 2842 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19202790 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM | LAM, ALEX W | 2842 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 08, 2025 |
| 19051707 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELECTRIC PROPULSION MACHINE | AN, IG TAI | 3662 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19024997 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE FOR RESERVOIR TANK | LATHERS, KEVIN ANTHONY | 3747 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18947719 | SHIP PROPULSION MACHINE | CHAN, KEVIN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18818038 | ENGINE | BROWN, DREW J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18814843 | ELECTRIC OUTBOARD MOTOR | FIGUEROA, MICHAEL KENN POTICANO | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18814884 | OUTBOARD MOTOR | TOPOLSKI, MAGDALENA | — | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18792904 | INSTALLATION STRUCTURE OF INTAKE AIR TEMPERATURE SENSOR | COTEY, PHILIP L | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18735008 | SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR TURN SIGNAL LAMP | DANIELS, JASON S | 3612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18416385 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM | LIETHEN, KURT PHILIP | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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