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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZF Active Safety And Electronics US LLC is managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity spans 3 distinct art units, which suggests a relatively concentrated departmental focus for the pending cases. The presence of 3 distinct art units indicates that while the examiners are different, some are working within the same technical group. This arrangement in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area necessitates tracking progress across multiple examiners to maintain a cohesive patent strategy.
STANLEY, TYLER JAY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio contains 4 pending actions and 4 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that each examiner handles a pending action. This direct ratio between actions and examiners allows for individual attention to each case. With the pending actions total, the company must engage with 4 different perspectives within the patent office. The 3 distinct art units involved will provide the technical framework for these ongoing evaluations.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANLEY, TYLER JAY | 1 | 46.9% | +54.2% |
| WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 1 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
| LIANG, HONGYE | 1 | 63.8% | +52.2% |
| STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 1 | 85.8% | +12.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075465 | APPARATUS FOR USE IN TURNING STEERABLE VEHICLE WHEELS | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 27d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18098963 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE ADVANCED DRIVER ASSIST SYSTEM DATA COLLECTION AND UPLOAD | LIANG, HONGYE | 34d |
| 18665731 | STEERING SYSTEM FOR USE IN TURNING STEERABLE VEHICLE WHEELS | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075465 | APPARATUS FOR USE IN TURNING STEERABLE VEHICLE WHEELS | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 27d |
| 18098963 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE ADVANCED DRIVER ASSIST SYSTEM DATA COLLECTION AND UPLOAD | LIANG, HONGYE | 34d |
| 18985074 | SHAFT RETENTION SCREW FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES | STANLEY, TYLER JAY | — |
| 18665731 | STEERING SYSTEM FOR USE IN TURNING STEERABLE VEHICLE WHEELS | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 2 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985074 | SHAFT RETENTION SCREW FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES | STANLEY, TYLER JAY | 3611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18665731 | STEERING SYSTEM FOR USE IN TURNING STEERABLE VEHICLE WHEELS | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 3617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18098963 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IMPROVE ADVANCED DRIVER ASSIST SYSTEM DATA COLLECTION AND UPLOAD | LIANG, HONGYE | 3664 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 19, 2023 |
| 18075465 | APPARATUS FOR USE IN TURNING STEERABLE VEHICLE WHEELS | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 3611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Dec 06, 2022 |
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