Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
ZF Automotive Brasil Ltda has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating separate examination paths.
MORRIS, DAVID R. is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner accounts for the whole pending workload. Counsel should manage each response according to its assigned examiner and art unit.
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 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRAMER, DEVON C | 1 | 15.3% | +16.1% |
| MORRIS, DAVID R. | 1 | 82.0% | +14.2% |
| TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 1 | 83.4% | +25.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739711 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | MORRIS, DAVID R. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739688 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | KRAMER, DEVON C | — |
| 18739670 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739688 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | KRAMER, DEVON C | — |
| 18739711 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | MORRIS, DAVID R. | — |
| 18739670 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739688 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | KRAMER, DEVON C | 3741 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18739711 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | MORRIS, DAVID R. | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18739670 | APPARATUS FOR DRUM BRAKE ASSEMBLY | TAYLOR II, JAMES JOSEPH | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialZF Automotive Brasil Ltda has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Devon C Kramer has the most, with 1 of ZF Automotive Brasil Ltda's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
