Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

VALEO VISION

16 pending office actions • 13 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
9
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
4
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

7
Overdue
2
Due this week
3
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (7)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (3)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

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%)
13
Medium (81%)
3
Easy (19%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only13 (81%)
§112 only3 (19%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
12% of docket
2
Information Tech
12% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
9
Semiconductors
56% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
19% 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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PEERCE, MATTHEW J 3 67.9% +27.1%
CATTANACH, COLIN J 1 59.1% +19.2%
HABIB, ASIFA 1 76.9% +14.7%
BARKER, MATTHEW M 1 72.4% +14.5%
KARACSONY, ROBERT 1 77.0% +15.0%
KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 1 71.4% +42.1%
LEE, EDMUND H 1 69.2% +17.6%
DHILLON, PUNEET S 1 82.1% +19.0%
QURESHI, MARIAM 1 74.8% +23.7%
LUQUE, RENAN 1 77.7% +17.0%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18567825 METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OBJECT IN A ROAD SURFACE, METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING AND AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE DHILLON, PUNEET S 72d

Interview Candidates (12)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18721689 AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE AND AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE HABIB, ASIFA 51d overdue
18695997 VEHICLE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A RADAR SENSOR AND AN ARRANGEMENT OF LAYERS BARKER, MATTHEW M 49d overdue
18258407 LIGHT ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORMING LIGHTING FUNCTIONS WITH SWITCHING UNITS IN LOW SIDE POSITION LUQUE, RENAN 35d overdue
19100266 LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE INTEGRATEING A FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE CATTANACH, COLIN J 30d overdue
18543344 MOLD INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHODS TO PREVENT SUPERFICIAL MELT AND COLOR BLEED OF MULTI-STACK POLYMERIC DESIGNS LEE, EDMUND H 15d overdue
19044589 LUMINOUS MODULE THAT IMAGES THE ILLUMINATED SURFACE OF A COLLECTOR PEERCE, MATTHEW J 4d overdue
18565375 OPTICAL MODULE COMPRISING A CAMERA AND AN OPAQUE ELEMENT FOR ABSORBING LIGHT QURESHI, MARIAM 6d
18688906 VEHICLE PART INTENDED TO BE PLACED FACING AN EMISSION CONE OF A RADAR SENSOR OF THE VEHICLE AND COMPRISING A DEICING SYSTEM KARACSONY, ROBERT 7d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2875 4
2876 1
3646 1
2845 1
2872 1
1744 1
2488 1
2871 1
2896 1
1787 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19044589 LUMINOUS MODULE THAT IMAGES THE ILLUMINATED SURFACE OF A COLLECTOR PEERCE, MATTHEW J 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Feb 03, 2025
19100266 LIGHT-EMITTING MODULE INTEGRATEING A FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE CATTANACH, COLIN J 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Jan 31, 2025
18867237 LIGHTING DEVICE HAVING A LIGHTING MODULE ARRANGED IN FRONT OF AN ILLUMINATION MODULE PEERCE, MATTHEW J 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending Nov 19, 2024
18721689 AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE AND AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE HABIB, ASIFA 2876 §103 Non-Final OA 51d overdue Pending Jun 19, 2024
18695997 VEHICLE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A RADAR SENSOR AND AN ARRANGEMENT OF LAYERS BARKER, MATTHEW M 3646 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2024
18688906 VEHICLE PART INTENDED TO BE PLACED FACING AN EMISSION CONE OF A RADAR SENSOR OF THE VEHICLE AND COMPRISING A DEICING SYSTEM KARACSONY, ROBERT 2845 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 04, 2024
18683137 DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE, COMPRISING A CAMERA AND A MASKING ZONE OPPOSITE SAID CAMERA KAUFFMAN, RUBY LUCIA 2872 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Feb 12, 2024
18543344 MOLD INJECTION SYSTEM AND METHODS TO PREVENT SUPERFICIAL MELT AND COLOR BLEED OF MULTI-STACK POLYMERIC DESIGNS LEE, EDMUND H 1744 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18567825 METHOD FOR DETECTING AN OBJECT IN A ROAD SURFACE, METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING AND AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE DHILLON, PUNEET S 2488 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Dec 07, 2023
18565375 OPTICAL MODULE COMPRISING A CAMERA AND AN OPAQUE ELEMENT FOR ABSORBING LIGHT QURESHI, MARIAM 2871 §103 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Nov 29, 2023
18262506 MOTOR VEHICLE DEVICE FOR LIGHTING THE ROAD PEERCE, MATTHEW J 2875 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Jul 21, 2023
18258407 LIGHT ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORMING LIGHTING FUNCTIONS WITH SWITCHING UNITS IN LOW SIDE POSITION LUQUE, RENAN 2896 §103 Final Rejection 35d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2023
18255974 INJECTION-MOULDED PLASTIC COMPONENT FOR LIGHTING DEVICE WITH FUNCTIONAL SURFACE ZACHARIA, RAMSEY E 1787 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18044145 PART FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING AN OPACIFICATION COATING, ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURING METHOD AND LUMINOUS DEVICE COMPRISING SAID PART DOUGLAS, STEVEN O 3612 §112 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Mar 06, 2023
18005889 METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE AND AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING DEVICE FABER, DAVID 2172 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jan 18, 2023
17679712 LAMP DE-ICING SYSTEM BURNS, KRISTINA BABINSKI 3761 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Feb 24, 2022

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