Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUNIS, LAERT | 1 | 67.8% | +20.8% |
| MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | 1 | 68.3% | +12.5% |
| MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 1 | 82.2% | +17.4% |
| NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 1 | 84.1% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18005069 | TRANSMISSION UNIT, TRANSMISSION ARRANGEMENT AND VEHICLE POWERTRAIN | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19390029 | A HEATING ARRANGEMENT, AN EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING THE HEATING ARRANGEMENT, A VEHICLE COMPRISING THE EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR A HEATING ARRANGEMENT | DOUNIS, LAERT | — |
| 19075924 | METHOD PERFORMED BY A CONTROL ARRANGEMENT | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | — |
| 18794213 | METHOD AND CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSFERRING A POWER BETWEEN ELECTRIC MACHINES IN A VEHICLE | MCPHERSON, JAMES 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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19390029 | A HEATING ARRANGEMENT, AN EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING THE HEATING ARRANGEMENT, A VEHICLE COMPRISING THE EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR A HEATING ARRANGEMENT | DOUNIS, LAERT | — |
| 19075924 | METHOD PERFORMED BY A CONTROL ARRANGEMENT | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | — |
| 18794213 | METHOD AND CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSFERRING A POWER BETWEEN ELECTRIC MACHINES IN A VEHICLE | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
| 18005069 | TRANSMISSION UNIT, TRANSMISSION ARRANGEMENT AND VEHICLE POWERTRAIN | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19390029 | A HEATING ARRANGEMENT, AN EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM COMPRISING THE HEATING ARRANGEMENT, A VEHICLE COMPRISING THE EXHAUST TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND A METHOD FOR A HEATING ARRANGEMENT | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2025 |
| 19075924 | METHOD PERFORMED BY A CONTROL ARRANGEMENT | MOHL, PATRICK DANIEL | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 18794213 | METHOD AND CONTROL ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSFERRING A POWER BETWEEN ELECTRIC MACHINES IN A VEHICLE | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 3663 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18005069 | TRANSMISSION UNIT, TRANSMISSION ARRANGEMENT AND VEHICLE POWERTRAIN | NGUYEN, LILLIAN T | 3655 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2023 |
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