Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZF Asia Pacific Automotive Safety Systems (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M, who is the busiest examiner. The portfolio is currently associated with 0 distinct art units. This reflects a single point of contact within the USPTO. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific requirements of POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M, as this examiner is the sole individual managing the company's current 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 1 | 73.0% | +26.2% |
| MORALES, OMAR | 1 | 59.9% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18015764 | PNEUMATIC SEAT SAFETY SYSTEM OF VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MORALES, OMAR | 7d |
| 19106685 | INJECTION-MOULDED COMPONENT, CONNECTION SYSTEM, STEERING WHEEL COVER PLATE, AND VEHICLE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1785 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19106685 | INJECTION-MOULDED COMPONENT, CONNECTION SYSTEM, STEERING WHEEL COVER PLATE, AND VEHICLE | POLLEY, CHRISTOPHER M | 1785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 18015764 | PNEUMATIC SEAT SAFETY SYSTEM OF VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | MORALES, OMAR | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jan 12, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialZF Asia Pacific Automotive Safety Systems (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Christopher M Polley has the most, with 1 of ZF Asia Pacific Automotive Safety Systems (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Chemistry & Materials (USPTO Tech Center 1700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.