Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
U-Shin Italia S.p.A. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is distributed between 2 distinct examiners, but both actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company's innovations fall under a single technical classification, they are being reviewed by different officials with potentially different examination styles. The focus on 1 distinct art unit indicates a consistent technical specialization for the active portfolio.
The busiest examiner, NEUBAUER, THOMAS L, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 2, this examiner handles a portion of the active matters. Practitioners should be prepared to manage 2 distinct examiners within the same art unit, which may require coordinating arguments to ensure consistency. The lack of examiner overlap, despite the shared 1 distinct art unit, means that each case will likely proceed on its own merits without direct influence from the other official's findings. Understanding the preferences of NEUBAUER, THOMAS L is key to resolving the current active filing.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 1 | 66.0% | +19.9% |
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18082807 | ELECTRONIC HANDLE FOR A VEHICLE DOOR | LUGO, CARLOS | 8d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18088307 | VEHICLE REAR DOOR HANDLE | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 58d overdue |
| 18082807 | ELECTRONIC HANDLE FOR A VEHICLE DOOR | LUGO, CARLOS | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18088307 | VEHICLE REAR DOOR HANDLE | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
| 18082807 | ELECTRONIC HANDLE FOR A VEHICLE DOOR | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialU-Shin Italia S.p.A. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Thomas L Neubauer has the most, with 1 of U-Shin Italia S.p.A.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
