Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trelleborg Carquefou has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending matter. The prosecution is currently limited to a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, showing a very narrow and specific focus for the company's current patent filings. This concentration allows for a highly targeted approach to the single pending application.
Because there is only a single pending office action, the company's immediate outcomes in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field are concentrated with ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA. The use of a single distinct art unit suggests the technical subject matter is highly specialized. Practitioners can focus exclusively on the procedural requirements of this individual examiner and art unit without the need to balance multiple competing prosecution timelines or strategies. This singular focus ensures that all administrative and legal efforts are directed toward the successful resolution of this one specific matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 1 | 76.0% | +11.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705857 | Steering system for a wheeled vehicle with at least two steerable wheels and method for controlling in particular the operation of such a steering system | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 33d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18705857 | Steering system for a wheeled vehicle with at least two steerable wheels and method for controlling in particular the operation of such a steering system | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18705857 | Steering system for a wheeled vehicle with at least two steerable wheels and method for controlling in particular the operation of such a steering system | ELAHMADI, ZAKARIA | 3618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
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