Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 6 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZF Automotive UK Limited is managing 14 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each of these 14 pending office actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 14 distinct examiners across the portfolio. This distribution suggests that no 1 examiner has a dominant influence over the current pending applications. However, the prosecution is more concentrated at the organizational level, with the 14 pending office actions occurring within 6 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner, MASIH, KAREN, holds 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is consistent with the 14 distinct examiners identified. This lack of examiner concentration means that practitioners must engage with many different individual styles and backgrounds. The 6 distinct art units provide thematic grouping for the actions, but the primary challenge lies in the diversity of the examiners. Strategic planning for this portfolio should focus on the specific trends within the 6 distinct art units while accounting for the examiner turnover across the 14 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (8%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 11 (85%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MASIH, KAREN | 1 | 91.0% | +6.6% |
| WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 1 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
| MEDANI, MOHAMED | 1 | 72.7% | +24.7% |
| SONG, DUHYUNG | 1 | — | — |
| STEFANON, JUSTIN | 1 | 51.1% | +48.0% |
| SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | 1 | 54.7% | +56.6% |
| DANG, TINH | 1 | 85.3% | +7.9% |
| CHOWDHURY, AL-BIRR RAHMAN | 1 | 80.0% | +26.4% |
| SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | 1 | 68.2% | +41.2% |
| IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 1 | 81.0% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647293 | MOTOR DRIVE ASSEMBLY | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 11d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919921 | MOTOR CONTROL METHOD | MASIH, KAREN | — |
| 18911763 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
| 18911715 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | MEDANI, MOHAMED | — |
| 18769790 | DUAL MOTOR HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | SONG, DUHYUNG | — |
| 18765451 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCOPORATING A MOTOR | STEFANON, JUSTIN | — |
| 18755863 | STEERING ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | DANG, TINH | — |
| 18753211 | STEERING COLUMN ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | CHOWDHURY, AL-BIRR RAHMAN | — |
| 18678839 | MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY AND A MOTOR FOR USE THEREIN | SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647293 | MOTOR DRIVE ASSEMBLY | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 11d overdue |
| 18911763 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — |
| 18911715 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | MEDANI, MOHAMED | — |
| 18765451 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCOPORATING A MOTOR | STEFANON, JUSTIN | — |
| 18765409 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCOPORATING A MOTOR | SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | — |
| 18753211 | STEERING COLUMN ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | CHOWDHURY, AL-BIRR RAHMAN | — |
| 18678839 | MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY AND A MOTOR FOR USE THEREIN | SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 2 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| 3655 | 1 |
| 2846 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919921 | MOTOR CONTROL METHOD | MASIH, KAREN | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18911763 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18911715 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING A MOTOR | MEDANI, MOHAMED | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18769790 | DUAL MOTOR HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY | SONG, DUHYUNG | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
| 18765451 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCOPORATING A MOTOR | STEFANON, JUSTIN | 2834 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18765409 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY INCOPORATING A MOTOR | SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 08, 2024 |
| 18755863 | STEERING ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | DANG, TINH | 3655 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
| 18753211 | STEERING COLUMN ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | CHOWDHURY, AL-BIRR RAHMAN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18678839 | MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY AND A MOTOR FOR USE THEREIN | SETZER, NICHOLAS LEE | 3611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18647293 | MOTOR DRIVE ASSEMBLY | IMTIAZ, ZOHEB S | 2846 | §103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18526480 | SUPPLY VOLTAGE MONITORING APPARATUS | WILLOUGHBY, TERRENCE RONIQUE | 2836 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18362450 | A DUAL MOTOR DRIVE ASSEMBLY | STABLEY, MICHAEL R | 3611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 18298759 | STEERING COLUMN ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | KOPPIKAR, VIVEK D | 3612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2023 |
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