Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

U-Shin Italia S.p.A.

4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

3
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (3)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
3
Medium (75%)
1
Easy (25%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
§112 only1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BROWN, EMILY GAIL 1 74.0% +18.1%
NEUBAUER, THOMAS L 1 66.2% +19.8%
LUGO, CARLOS 1 74.7% +14.0%
WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY 1 54.3% +36.7%

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18088307 VEHICLE REAR DOOR HANDLE NEUBAUER, THOMAS L 58d overdue
18343247 DOOR HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE DOOR BROWN, EMILY GAIL 28d overdue
18082807 ELECTRONIC HANDLE FOR A VEHICLE DOOR LUGO, CARLOS 8d overdue
17950649 DETECTION DEVICE AND DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ACTIVATING AT LEAST ONE FUNCTION OF AN APPARATUS, AND APPARATUS COMPRISING THE DETECTION SYSTEM WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY 13d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3675 4

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18343247 DOOR HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE DOOR BROWN, EMILY GAIL 3675 §112 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Jun 28, 2023
18088307 VEHICLE REAR DOOR HANDLE NEUBAUER, THOMAS L 3675 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
18082807 ELECTRONIC HANDLE FOR A VEHICLE DOOR LUGO, CARLOS 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2022
17950649 DETECTION DEVICE AND DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ACTIVATING AT LEAST ONE FUNCTION OF AN APPARATUS, AND APPARATUS COMPRISING THE DETECTION SYSTEM WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY 3675 §103 Final Rejection 13d Pending Sep 22, 2022

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