Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
16 pending office actions • 5 art units • 11 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 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. 16 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 12 (75%) |
| §112 only | 2 (12%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (12%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3 | 65.6% | +7.4% |
| HSIAO, JAMES K | 2 | 76.7% | +15.2% |
| KING, BRADLEY T | 2 | 70.8% | +24.6% |
| BURCH, MELODY M | 2 | 64.1% | +26.0% |
| LORENCE, RICHARD M | 1 | 83.1% | +13.0% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.6% | +14.1% |
| ALLEN, ANDRE J | 1 | 91.4% | +6.3% |
| IRVIN, THOMAS W | 1 | 77.0% | +15.0% |
| DINH, THAI T | 1 | 85.8% | -0.1% |
| AUNG, SAN M | 1 | 77.7% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18531093 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM WITH ANALOG DETECTION OF BRAKE FLUID FILL LEVEL | ALLEN, ANDRE J | 26d overdue |
| 18188956 | ELECTRICALLY OPERATED BRAKING ASSEMBLY FOR A BRAKING SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | DINH, THAI T | 28d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18678903 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SERVICE BRAKE HAVING AN ELECTRICAL PARKING BRAKE, AND METHOD FOR RELEASING THE PARKING BRAKE | LORENCE, RICHARD M | 272d overdue |
| 18458396 | ADAPTING A BRAKE CLEARANCE TO A TRAFFIC SITUATION | HSIAO, JAMES K | 85d overdue |
| 17992973 | GUIDE ELEMENT AND BRAKE ANCHOR FOR A DISK BRAKE SYSTEM, AND DISK BRAKE SYSTEM | BURCH, MELODY M | 72d overdue |
| 18552932 | ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | IRVIN, THOMAS W | 11d overdue |
| 18082255 | FUNCTIONAL UNIT, HYDRAULIC MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, METHOD FOR OPERATING A HYDRAULIC MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, AND MOTOR VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT | AUNG, SAN M | 9d overdue |
| 17989235 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BRAKE SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, CONTROL UNIT AND BRAKE SYSTEM | KING, BRADLEY T | 4d overdue |
| 18079557 | HYDRAULIC MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM | BURCH, MELODY M | 14d |
| 18533476 | ELECTROMECHANICAL VEHICLE BRAKE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 12 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18678903 | ELECTROMECHANICAL SERVICE BRAKE HAVING AN ELECTRICAL PARKING BRAKE, AND METHOD FOR RELEASING THE PARKING BRAKE | LORENCE, RICHARD M | 3617 | Other | Non-Final OA | 272d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18533476 | ELECTROMECHANICAL VEHICLE BRAKE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Dec 08, 2023 |
| 18531093 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HYDRAULIC BRAKE SYSTEM WITH ANALOG DETECTION OF BRAKE FLUID FILL LEVEL | ALLEN, ANDRE J | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18552932 | ELECTRIC PARKING BRAKE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF | IRVIN, THOMAS W | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18458396 | ADAPTING A BRAKE CLEARANCE TO A TRAFFIC SITUATION | HSIAO, JAMES K | 3616 | Other | Non-Final OA | 85d overdue | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18188956 | ELECTRICALLY OPERATED BRAKING ASSEMBLY FOR A BRAKING SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | DINH, THAI T | 2846 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18187378 | ELECTROMECHANICAL VEHICLE BRAKE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF AN ELECTROMECHANICAL VEHICLE BRAKE | HSIAO, JAMES K | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18170942 | BRAKE SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLE | KING, BRADLEY T | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18082255 | FUNCTIONAL UNIT, HYDRAULIC MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, METHOD FOR OPERATING A HYDRAULIC MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM, AND MOTOR VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT | AUNG, SAN M | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2022 |
| 18079557 | HYDRAULIC MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE SYSTEM | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Dec 12, 2022 |
| 17992973 | GUIDE ELEMENT AND BRAKE ANCHOR FOR A DISK BRAKE SYSTEM, AND DISK BRAKE SYSTEM | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | Nov 23, 2022 |
| 17989235 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BRAKE SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, CONTROL UNIT AND BRAKE SYSTEM | KING, BRADLEY T | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Nov 17, 2022 |
| 17988466 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE BRAKE AND ELECTROMECHANICAL VEHICLE BRAKE | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 17984501 | CARRIER ASSEMBLY AND DRIVE ASSEMBLY FOR AN ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE BRAKE, AND ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
| 17980842 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A BRAKE SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | BAAJOUR, SHAHIRA | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17729490 | METHOD FOR REDUCING VIBRATIONS IN A FRICTION BRAKE, AND BRAKING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM CODE | LANE, NICHOLAS J | 3616 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
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