Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
U-Shin Italia S.p.A. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, yet they all fall within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration within a single art unit suggests a very specific technological focus despite the involvement of multiple examiners, indicating that the company's innovations are tightly clustered within one administrative category.
THOMAS L NEUBAUER is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because each of the 3 distinct examiners is handling 1 of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed across the assigned staff. Practitioners should monitor the 1 distinct art unit for consistent trends, as it serves as the sole administrative hub for the company's current prosecution efforts. This structure allows the company to evaluate the performance of 3 distinct examiners while operating under the unified policy framework of a single art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 | 65.9% | +20.0% |
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +14.0% |
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
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 3 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 |
| 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 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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