Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
29 pending office actions • 13 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 29 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Webasto SE currently has 29 pending office actions in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. These actions are distributed across 13 distinct art units, reflecting the technical focus within the sector. The prosecution involves 27 distinct examiners, which means that the count of pending actions is nearly equal to the count of individuals assigned to review them.
LYJAK, LORI LYNN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This is a portion of the 29 pending office actions total, indicating that the portfolio's management is not concentrated under a few examiners. The 13 distinct art units suggest that the company's material science innovations are being reviewed by a variety of specialized technical teams. Practitioners should prepare for a distributed examination process where 27 distinct examiners provide a range of perspectives, with the busiest examiner overseeing only 2 cases.
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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (3%) |
| §103 only | 7 (24%) |
| §102 only | 1 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 20 (69%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 2 | 89.9% | +8.6% |
| BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | 2 | 81.3% | +13.2% |
| EIDE, ERIC T | 1 | 66.9% | +22.1% |
| ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | 1 | 84.6% | +6.1% |
| YANG, ZHEREN J | 1 | 57.4% | +52.4% |
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.0% | +8.7% |
| MCKINNON, TERRELL L | 1 | 30.4% | +20.3% |
| TRAN, NGUYEN | 1 | 83.6% | +7.5% |
| CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| DANG, HUNG Q | 1 | 68.3% | +18.6% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971462 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING A ROOF SKIN ARRANGEMENT AND CONVERTIBLE TOP LINKAGE | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — |
| 18688476 | FLOW GUIDING DEVICE FOR BEING INSTALLED ON A PANEL COMPONENT | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18384447 | Method for ascertaining a proportion of defective battery cells, battery controller, computer program, computer-readable storage medium, battery and motor vehicle | LEE, PAUL D | 20d |
| 18687113 | ROOF MODULE FOR FORMING A VEHICLE ROOF HAVING A CLEANING APPARATUS | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 30d |
| 19152339 | VEHICLE ROOF ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PANE WITH A LIGHT GUIDE LAYER | EIDE, ERIC T | — |
| 18879591 | ROOF ARRANGEMENT WITH LINER ELEMENT | ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | — |
| 18991954 | VEHICLE WINDOW AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A VEHICLE WINDOW | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| 18985669 | COVER FOR A VEHICLE ROOF AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COVER | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — |
| 18971466 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING A CONVERTIBLE TOP LINKAGE | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18971473 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING COUPLED MULTI-BAR ARRANGEMENTS | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19152339 | VEHICLE ROOF ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PANE WITH A LIGHT GUIDE LAYER | EIDE, ERIC T | — |
| 18991954 | VEHICLE WINDOW AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A VEHICLE WINDOW | YANG, ZHEREN J | — |
| 18971466 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING A CONVERTIBLE TOP LINKAGE | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18971473 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING COUPLED MULTI-BAR ARRANGEMENTS | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — |
| 18965305 | SENSOR MODULE HAVING AN ENVIRONMENT SENSOR AND A COOLING DEVICE | MCKINNON, TERRELL L | — |
| 18834907 | ASSEMBLIES FOR MOVING A COVER, AND VEHICLE ROOF | DANG, HUNG Q | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 2 |
| 2875 | 1 |
| 2486 | 1 |
| 1784 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 2871 | 1 |
| 1783 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19152339 | VEHICLE ROOF ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A PANE WITH A LIGHT GUIDE LAYER | EIDE, ERIC T | 2875 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 18879591 | ROOF ARRANGEMENT WITH LINER ELEMENT | ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2024 |
| 18991954 | VEHICLE WINDOW AND VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A VEHICLE WINDOW | YANG, ZHEREN J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18985669 | COVER FOR A VEHICLE ROOF AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A COVER | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18971462 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING A ROOF SKIN ARRANGEMENT AND CONVERTIBLE TOP LINKAGE | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18971466 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING A CONVERTIBLE TOP LINKAGE | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18971473 | CONVERTIBLE TOP HAVING COUPLED MULTI-BAR ARRANGEMENTS | BUTCHER, CAROLINE N | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18965305 | SENSOR MODULE HAVING AN ENVIRONMENT SENSOR AND A COOLING DEVICE | MCKINNON, TERRELL L | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18959142 | DC-DC CONVERTER | TRAN, NGUYEN | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18864769 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR WIND DEFLECTOR OF SUNROOF OF VEHICLE, WIND DEFLECTOR AND SUNROOF | CHEN, DANIEL GUANG-DIAN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18834907 | ASSEMBLIES FOR MOVING A COVER, AND VEHICLE ROOF | DANG, HUNG Q | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18784006 | VEHICLE ROOF HAVING AN OUTER ROOF SKIN ELEMENT AND HEADLINER | BEMKO, TARAS P | — | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2024 |
| 18562667 | Bus bar for contacting of battery cells accommodated in a cell holder, battery module arrangement and method for connecting a bus bar to a battery cell | CARVALHO JR., ARMINDO | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18644474 | SENSOR MODULE COMPRISING A WEATHERSTRIP ARRANGEMENT, A ROOF MODULE AND A MOTOR VEHICLE | DEMOSKY, PATRICK E | 2486 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
| 18619550 | LAMINATED PANE FOR A VEHICLE, VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LAMINATED PANE | COLGAN, LAUREN ROBINSON | 1784 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 18614239 | Case lid for a case of an electric motor, case assembly having the case lid and electric motor | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18688476 | FLOW GUIDING DEVICE FOR BEING INSTALLED ON A PANEL COMPONENT | LYJAK, LORI LYNN | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18687113 | ROOF MODULE FOR FORMING A VEHICLE ROOF HAVING A CLEANING APPARATUS | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 3612 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18293000 | Battery module and battery | HILTON, ALBERT MICHAEL | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18292800 | GLASS PANEL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A GLASS PANEL DEVICE | QURESHI, MARIAM | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18407063 | MOTOR VEHICLE PANE AND MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING SUCH A MOTOR VEHICLE PANE | FIGG, TRAVIS M | 1783 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18565712 | Battery and battery control method | MERKLING, MATTHEW J | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18389355 | Battery for a motor vehicle | LIN, GIGI LEE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18384447 | Method for ascertaining a proportion of defective battery cells, battery controller, computer program, computer-readable storage medium, battery and motor vehicle | LEE, PAUL D | 2857 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 18450686 | VEHICLE ROOF HAVING A SEALING SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | VINEIS, FRANK J | 1781 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18019418 | Housing for a battery module for receiving battery cells | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1700 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 02, 2023 |
| 17893687 | Roof Module for Forming a Vehicle Roof Having a Displaceable Cleaning Nozzle | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 23, 2022 |
| 17791682 | BURNER AND MOBILE HEATING DEVICE | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jul 08, 2022 |
| 17781679 | Supporting structure for receiving battery cells | RICKMAN, HOLLY C | 1785 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jun 01, 2022 |
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