Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZF Off-Highway Solutions Minnesota Inc. currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, WILLIAMS, THOMAS J, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. Having 1 pending office action suggests that the company is currently focused on a specific application or technical advancement. The concentration of the workload under 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is highly dependent on the feedback from this individual.
The portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which corresponds to the single pending office action in this technology area. Because WILLIAMS, THOMAS J is managing the 1 pending office action, there is no current variation in examiner perspectives or art unit standards for the company. This unified prosecution environment requires a precise response to the examiner's requirements. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural and technical expectations of the 1 distinct art unit to successfully navigate the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18357706 | EXTERNALLY ADJUSTABLE PRESSURE MODULATING VALVE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 83d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18357706 | EXTERNALLY ADJUSTABLE PRESSURE MODULATING VALVE | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 83d | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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