Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VALEO EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH

13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

13
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
3
Due this week
3
Due this month
1
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. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 7 days (3)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 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%)
12
Medium (92%)
1
Easy (8%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only10 (77%)
§102 only2 (15%)
§112 only1 (8%)

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
11
Semiconductors
85% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
15% 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.

130 h
Manual time on pending OAs
26 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
46 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SINGH, ALEXANDER A 1 77.0% +1.6%
MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK 1 70.0% +30.6%
JOHNSON, RYAN 1 83.7% +15.9%
PAUL, ANTONY M 1 89.4% +9.6%
PHAM, LEDA T 1 74.6% +11.2%
GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 1 75.8% +12.9%
NGUYEN, VIET P 1 61.3% +30.5%
MOK, ALEX W 1 74.2% +21.0%
DALLO, JOSEPH J 1 89.7% +7.1%
DUONG, THO V 1 67.0% +17.5%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18539866 ELECTRIC DRIVE AXLE FOR A VEHICLE DALLO, JOSEPH J 88d overdue
18733955 SWITCHING CELL WITH CONNECTING DEVICE JOHNSON, RYAN 31d overdue
18707369 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWER CONVERTER USING A VARIABLE SWITCHING FREQUENCY PAUL, ANTONY M 14d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18558668 COOLING STRUCTURE, POWER MODULE COMPRISING SUCH A COOLING STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL POWER CONVERTER, SUCH AS AN INVERTER, COMPRISING SUCH A POWER MODULE DUONG, THO V 77d overdue
18640278 ELECTRIC MOTOR COOLING ARRANGEMENT, OIL SPRAY RING, ELECTRIC MOTOR AND VEHICLE PHAM, LEDA T 43d overdue
18733955 SWITCHING CELL WITH CONNECTING DEVICE JOHNSON, RYAN 31d overdue
18682795 STATOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STATOR, ELECTRIC MACHINE AND VEHICLE NGUYEN, VIET P 5d
18390723 ROTOR, ELECTRIC MACHINE AND VEHICLE MOK, ALEX W 5d
18696111 SERIES CONNECTION OF MAGNET POCKETS TO IMPROVE AND SPEED UP THE FILLING AND VENTILATION PROCESS GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 7d
18720174 ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE HAVING A COOLING DUCT IN A POLE SEPARATOR MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK 14d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 6
2849 1
2846 1
3747 1
3763 1
2831 1
2837 1
2858 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18720183 ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRICAL MACHINE HAVING A TUBULAR COOLING CHANNEL SINGH, ALEXANDER A 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jun 14, 2024
18720174 ROTOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE HAVING A COOLING DUCT IN A POLE SEPARATOR MANN JR, CHARLIE FRANK 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 14, 2024
18733955 SWITCHING CELL WITH CONNECTING DEVICE JOHNSON, RYAN 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2024
18707369 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWER CONVERTER USING A VARIABLE SWITCHING FREQUENCY PAUL, ANTONY M 2846 §112 Non-Final OA 14d Pending May 03, 2024
18640278 ELECTRIC MOTOR COOLING ARRANGEMENT, OIL SPRAY RING, ELECTRIC MOTOR AND VEHICLE PHAM, LEDA T 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Apr 19, 2024
18696111 SERIES CONNECTION OF MAGNET POCKETS TO IMPROVE AND SPEED UP THE FILLING AND VENTILATION PROCESS GONZALEZ QUINONES, JOSE A 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18682795 STATOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STATOR, ELECTRIC MACHINE AND VEHICLE NGUYEN, VIET P 2834 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Feb 09, 2024
18390723 ROTOR, ELECTRIC MACHINE AND VEHICLE MOK, ALEX W 2834 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 20, 2023
18539866 ELECTRIC DRIVE AXLE FOR A VEHICLE DALLO, JOSEPH J 3747 §102 Non-Final OA 88d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2023
18558668 COOLING STRUCTURE, POWER MODULE COMPRISING SUCH A COOLING STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL POWER CONVERTER, SUCH AS AN INVERTER, COMPRISING SUCH A POWER MODULE DUONG, THO V 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 77d overdue Pending Nov 02, 2023
18546561 CABLE CONNECTION HAVING IMPROVED ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R 2831 §102 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Aug 15, 2023
18257153 CONNECTION UNIT FOR A STATOR, STATOR FOR AN ELECTRIC MACHINE, STATOR ARRANGEMENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A STATOR ARRANGEMENT, AND ELECTRIC MACHINE FOR DRIVING A VEHICLE TALPALATSKI, ALEXANDER 2837 §103 Final Rejection 139d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2023
18254271 ELECTRICAL DEVICE, INVERTER, ELECTRIC DRIVE, VEHICLE AND MANUFACTURING METHODS BARRON, JEREMIAH JOHN 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending May 24, 2023

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