Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
VALEO KAPEC CO., LTD. has 3 pending office actions in Chemistry & Materials. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, showing that the portfolio is distributed across separate examination channels.
SKROUPA, JOSHUA A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The absence of a repeated examiner or art unit in the listed figures supports matter-specific preparation rather than a portfolio-wide prosecution assumption.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 1 | 80.3% | +15.2% |
| WILLS, MONIQUE M | 1 | 85.8% | -30.4% |
| RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1 | 41.9% | +22.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712939 | TORSIONAL DAMPER AND HYBRID DRIVING MODULE HAVING SAME | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18225965 | SENSING BLOCK AND BATTERY MODULE ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME | WILLS, MONIQUE M | — |
| 18318127 | Battery Pack for Vehicle | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18712939 | TORSIONAL DAMPER AND HYBRID DRIVING MODULE HAVING SAME | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | — |
| 18318127 | Battery Pack for Vehicle | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| 1743 | 1 |
| 1751 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18712939 | TORSIONAL DAMPER AND HYBRID DRIVING MODULE HAVING SAME | SKROUPA, JOSHUA A | 3678 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18225965 | SENSING BLOCK AND BATTERY MODULE ASSEMBLY INCLUDING THE SAME | WILLS, MONIQUE M | 1743 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18318127 | Battery Pack for Vehicle | RUTISER, CLAIRE A | 1751 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialVALEO KAPEC CO., LTD. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Joshua A Skroupa has the most, with 1 of VALEO KAPEC CO., LTD.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
