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
ZF Padova Srl is managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active matter is located in 1 distinct art unit, which represents the primary technical focus of the company's current prosecution. This concentration in 1 art unit suggests that the company's immediate patent efforts are directed toward a specific transportation sub-sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is AVILA, STEPHEN P, who is handling the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current patent strategy is concentrated on a single examination relationship. This allows the applicant to focus its legal arguments on the specific feedback provided by AVILA, STEPHEN P without the need to coordinate across multiple examiners.
Because there is only 1 pending office action, the immediate success of the company's intellectual property goals depends on the outcome of this 1 case. The 1 distinct art unit involved ensures that the prosecution remains within a consistent administrative and technical framework. This focused approach is characteristic of a portfolio with a single active matter in the transportation field.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVILA, STEPHEN P | 1 | 80.3% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570356 | MARINE DRIVE UNIT WITH A COOLING OIL CIRCUIT | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18570356 | MARINE DRIVE UNIT WITH A COOLING OIL CIRCUIT | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18570356 | MARINE DRIVE UNIT WITH A COOLING OIL CIRCUIT | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Dec 14, 2023 |
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