Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Vehicle Service Group LLC

5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (2)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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only1 (20%)
§102 only4 (80%)

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
1
Communications
20% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
80% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MUDWILDER, MICHELLE MARIE PETERS 2 69.5% +31.3%
MAHROUKA, WASSIM 1 86.2% +6.8%
JEN, MINGJEN 1 80.1% +13.6%
SNELTING, JONATHAN D 1 68.8% +31.7%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19245569 INTELLIGENT VEHICLE LIFT NETWORK WITH DISTRIBUTED SENSORS MAHROUKA, WASSIM 18d overdue
18526133 LINKER COMMUNICATION WITH MULTIPLE LIFT SYSTEMS JEN, MINGJEN 28d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18220870 VEHICLE FUEL UNIT LIFT SNELTING, JONATHAN D 66d overdue
18648329 NESTING LIFT ARM WITH INTEGRATED STOPS MUDWILDER, MICHELLE MARIE PETERS 19d
18526133 LINKER COMMUNICATION WITH MULTIPLE LIFT SYSTEMS JEN, MINGJEN 28d
18618810 CIRCUMFERENTIAL RESTRAINT FOR PIVOTING ARM OF VEHICLE LIFT MUDWILDER, MICHELLE MARIE PETERS 33d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3654 2
2668 1
3657 1
3652 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19245569 INTELLIGENT VEHICLE LIFT NETWORK WITH DISTRIBUTED SENSORS MAHROUKA, WASSIM 2668 §102 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2025
18648329 NESTING LIFT ARM WITH INTEGRATED STOPS MUDWILDER, MICHELLE MARIE PETERS 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18618810 CIRCUMFERENTIAL RESTRAINT FOR PIVOTING ARM OF VEHICLE LIFT MUDWILDER, MICHELLE MARIE PETERS 3654 §102 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Mar 27, 2024
18526133 LINKER COMMUNICATION WITH MULTIPLE LIFT SYSTEMS JEN, MINGJEN 3657 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Dec 01, 2023
18220870 VEHICLE FUEL UNIT LIFT SNELTING, JONATHAN D 3652 §102 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jul 12, 2023

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