Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vay Technology GmbH is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently faces 2 pending office actions, indicating a multi-faceted prosecution effort. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's innovations span different technical classifications within the patent office. This distribution requires a strategy that can adapt to the varying standards of 2 different technical divisions. The 2 pending office actions represent the current active challenges for the company's intellectual property team.
The workload involves 2 distinct examiners, providing different perspectives on the company's patent applications. SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action under their review. Since this busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action, the portfolio's challenges are distributed among the assigned examiners. This lack of concentration means that the company must manage 2 distinct examiners simultaneously to advance its pending applications. Successfully navigating the requirements of these 2 distinct examiners is essential for the company's progress in this technology area.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M | 1 | 52.8% | +35.2% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17951759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC CONTROL OF REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES BASED ON ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS | SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17951759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC CONTROL OF REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES BASED ON ENVIRONMENT CONDITIONS | SANTOS, KIRSTEN JADE M | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2022 |
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