Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Yantai Winhere Auto-Part Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a concentrated prosecution effort. This focus within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's active patent matters are technically aligned. Managing 1 pending office action allows for a simplified administrative process with a single examiner to communicate with.
STCLAIR, ANDREW D is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner manages the total 1 pending office action for the portfolio, serving as the sole reviewer for the company's active patent matters. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, which matches the total number of pending office actions, the company's current success at the patent office depends on this single individual. There are no other distinct examiners or art units currently active, so practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of STCLAIR, ANDREW D.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17798315 | Composite Brake Disc Connecting Assembly and Composite Brake Disc | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 476d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17798315 | Composite Brake Disc Connecting Assembly and Composite Brake Disc | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 476d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
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