Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 3 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ti Automotive Technology Center GmbH is managing 7 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are categorized across 3 distinct art units, showing that the company's technical developments are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups. The presence of 3 art units implies that the prosecution strategy must be versatile enough to meet the standards of different USPTO technical branches.
The portfolio's 7 pending office actions are distributed among 7 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every active case. This lack of examiner overlap ensures that the company's patent outcomes are not overly dependent on the discretion of any single individual. Instead, the company must manage 7 separate examiner relationships to move the portfolio forward.
TEITELBAUM, DAVID J is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner's load is only 1 of the 7 pending office actions, the company benefits from a highly diversified examiner pool. This distribution requires a case-by-case approach to prosecution, as there is no central examiner handling a majority of the company's active patent matters.
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 | 1 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (71%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | 1 | 68.7% | +24.0% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 51.5% | +12.1% |
| LU, HAOTIAN | 1 | 60.6% | +37.3% |
| KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | 1 | 56.8% | +17.6% |
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
| SCHERMERHORN, JON | 1 | 58.1% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811354 | VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 80d overdue |
| 18870272 | Plastic Fuel Tank With Supporting Element | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 4d overdue |
| 19056170 | HVAC BOX FOR COOLING COMPONENTS OF A VECHICLE | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| 18811065 | REFRIGERANT ACCUMULATOR | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18216122 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TRANSPORT OF MEDIA | SCHERMERHORN, JON | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811354 | VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 80d overdue |
| 18870272 | Plastic Fuel Tank With Supporting Element | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 4d overdue |
| 19056170 | HVAC BOX FOR COOLING COMPONENTS OF A VECHICLE | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — |
| 18812598 | ARRANGEMENT FOR A TEMPERATURE CONTROL CIRCUIT | LU, HAOTIAN | — |
| 18811065 | REFRIGERANT ACCUMULATOR | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — |
| 18684429 | PIPE ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AIR-CONDITIONING DEVICE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | — |
| 18216122 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TRANSPORT OF MEDIA | SCHERMERHORN, JON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19056170 | HVAC BOX FOR COOLING COMPONENTS OF A VECHICLE | TEITELBAUM, DAVID J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18870272 | Plastic Fuel Tank With Supporting Element | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §102§112Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18812598 | ARRANGEMENT FOR A TEMPERATURE CONTROL CIRCUIT | LU, HAOTIAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18811065 | REFRIGERANT ACCUMULATOR | KURTZ, BENJAMIN M | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18811354 | VALVE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 80d overdue | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18684429 | PIPE ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AIR-CONDITIONING DEVICE | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
| 18216122 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TRANSPORT OF MEDIA | SCHERMERHORN, JON | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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