Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Workhorse Group Inc. is navigating 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 5 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This structure shows a high degree of examiner diversity, with each of the pending actions being reviewed by a different individual. The 3 distinct art units suggest that the company's mechanical systems technology is categorized into several technical niches.
ALI, LABIBAH ILMA is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. With 5 examiners for 5 actions, the workload is perfectly distributed across the various individuals. Practitioners must navigate separate examination styles, as the pending matters are not consolidated under any single examiner's authority. This requires a broad approach to prosecution, accounting for the specific preferences of the various examiners across the 3 art units involved in the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KINGSLAND, KYLE J | 1 | 78.1% | +8.1% |
| WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 1 | 77.6% | +26.5% |
| MORROW, JASON S | 1 | 84.3% | +10.9% |
| SHRIVER II, JAMES A | 1 | 50.7% | -20.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18741590 | LAND VEHICLES INCORPORATING MONOCOQUES AND MODULAR MOLD SYSTEMS FOR MAKING THE SAME | MORROW, JASON S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18897032 | LAND VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR USE AS ELECTRIC DELIVERY VEHICLES | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | — |
| 18741590 | LAND VEHICLES INCORPORATING MONOCOQUES AND MODULAR MOLD SYSTEMS FOR MAKING THE SAME | MORROW, JASON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18909288 | ELECTRIC DELIVERY TRUCK CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HUB MOTOR CONTROL | KINGSLAND, KYLE J | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 113d overdue | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18897032 | LAND VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR USE AS ELECTRIC DELIVERY VEHICLES | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18741590 | LAND VEHICLES INCORPORATING MONOCOQUES AND MODULAR MOLD SYSTEMS FOR MAKING THE SAME | MORROW, JASON S | 3612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18623665 | LAND VEHICLES INCORPORATING IMPACT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS | SHRIVER II, JAMES A | 3615 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
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