Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
28 pending office actions • 10 clients • 27 examiners • 25 art units • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (4%) |
| §103 only | 20 (71%) |
| §102 only | 4 (14%) |
| §112 only | 2 (7%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (4%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRISBY, KEITH J | 2 | 77.5% | +1.5% |
| WEBB, TIFFANY L | 1 | 92.0% | +7.1% |
| TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 1 | 67.5% | +21.6% |
| DANG, CHRISTINE | 1 | 48.8% | +50.2% |
| BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 1 | 73.9% | +23.4% |
| WILSON, BRIAN P | 1 | 62.6% | +41.8% |
| HOLLOWAY, JASON R | 1 | 74.8% | +21.5% |
| MO, XIAO EN | 1 | 80.7% | +6.0% |
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.6% | +50.0% |
| THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1 | 73.3% | +10.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248916 | BALL JOINT ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE AND VEHICLE SUSPENSION | WEBB, TIFFANY L | 30d overdue |
| 18616424 | VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY WITH INTEGRATED LAP BELT PRE-TENSIONING TO OPTIMIZE LAP BELT GEOMETRY | MO, XIAO EN | 26d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18385496 | METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR LOCATING VEHICLES | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING A DISTRACTED DRIVER | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 72d overdue |
| 18679663 | REMOTE CONTROL OF A PARKED VEHICLE HAVING AN OCCUPANT OR PET BASED ON EXTERNAL NOISE | WILSON, BRIAN P | 9d overdue |
| 18595682 | PARTIAL COVER FOR DINNERWARE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 4d overdue |
| 18679588 | COLLISION AVOIDANCE BY OBSERVED VEHICLE WHEEL ROTATION | HOLLOWAY, JASON R | 13d |
| 18965036 | Method and Device for Regulating a Tire Pressure of a Vehicle and Storage Medium | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 39d |
| 18411160 | FIBER COMPOSITE PRODUCT AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEREOF | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 56d |
| 18905557 | PERMISSIONED ENCRYPTED AND REDUNDANT MEDIA ACCESS FILE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | DANG, CHRISTINE | 78d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Volvo Group | 18 |
| Kobe Steel | 2 |
| Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment, LLC | 1 |
| Vision Innovations LLC | 1 |
| Consolidated Nuclear Security | 1 |
| UNC Charlotte | 1 |
| Lactalite | 1 |
| Eastman Chemical | 1 |
| PHARIS BIOTEC GMBH | 1 |
| Glass Technologies Limited | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3614 | 3 |
| 2689 | 2 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 2409 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3747 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 1786 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19256284 | WINDSHIELD SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | Volvo Car Corporation | FRISBY, KEITH J | 3614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Jul 01, 2025 |
| 19248916 | BALL JOINT ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE AND VEHICLE SUSPENSION | Volvo Car Corporation | WEBB, TIFFANY L | 3614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 19049093 | COMPONENT FOR A VEHICLE CHASSIS | Volvo Car Corporation | FRISBY, KEITH J | 3614 | §102 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Feb 10, 2025 |
| 18965036 | Method and Device for Regulating a Tire Pressure of a Vehicle and Storage Medium | Volvo Car Corporation | TRAN, SARAH ASHLEY | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18905557 | PERMISSIONED ENCRYPTED AND REDUNDANT MEDIA ACCESS FILE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM | Nothing Rhymes With Entertainment, LLC | DANG, CHRISTINE | 2409 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18679615 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING A DISTRACTED DRIVER | Volvo Car Corporation | BARAKAT, MOHAMED | 2689 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 72d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18679663 | REMOTE CONTROL OF A PARKED VEHICLE HAVING AN OCCUPANT OR PET BASED ON EXTERNAL NOISE | Volvo Car Corporation | WILSON, BRIAN P | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18679588 | COLLISION AVOIDANCE BY OBSERVED VEHICLE WHEEL ROTATION | Volvo Car Corporation | HOLLOWAY, JASON R | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 13d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18616424 | VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY WITH INTEGRATED LAP BELT PRE-TENSIONING TO OPTIMIZE LAP BELT GEOMETRY | Volvo Car Corporation | MO, XIAO EN | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18595682 | PARTIAL COVER FOR DINNERWARE | Vision Innovations LLC | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18411160 | FIBER COMPOSITE PRODUCT AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THEREOF | Volvo Car Corporation | THOMPSON, CAMIE S | 1786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18529056 | USER CATEGORIZATION AND INSIGHT METHODS AND SYSTEMS | Volvo Car Corporation | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 3688 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18385496 | METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR LOCATING VEHICLES | Volvo Car Corporation | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18375633 | Vehicle Body Structure | Volvo Car Corporation | SANTIAGO, ANAYANSI ISABEL | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 6d | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18243248 | DIGITAL SHOWROOM FOR CONDUCTING VEHICLE DEMOS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH PRODUCT EXPERTS | Volvo Car Corporation | IMPERIAL, JED-JUSTIN | 2616 | §103 | Final Rejection | 132d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18229381 | CERAMIC RADIATION DETECTOR DEVICE AND METHOD | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC | MILLER, CAMERON KENNETH | 1731 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 18030325 | SUSTAINABLE CURTAIN WALL | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | EDWARDS, LYDIA E | 1796 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 39d | Pending | Apr 05, 2023 |
| 18077272 | BATTERY CELL ASSEMBLY AND BATTERY UNIT FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE | Volvo Car Corporation | DIGNAN, MICHAEL L | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
| 17994491 | LIGHT ACCESSORY DEVICE FOR A BREAST PUMP OR THE LIKE | Lactalite, LLC | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17980807 | POLYMER COLOR ANALYSIS BY TRANSMISSION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY USING HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX COMPOSITE LIQUIDS | Eastman Chemical Company | SODERQUIST, ARLEN | 1797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2022 |
| 17972820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC SENSOR ENHANCEMENT USING LIDAR POINT CLOUD | Volvo Car Corporation | HUTCHENS, CHRISTOPHER D. | 3647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2022 |
| 17971815 | BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED TIME-BASED CHARGING AND BATTERY HEALTH MONITORING | Volvo Car Corporation | NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE | 2857 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 73d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17971838 | BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED TIME-BASED CHARGING AND BATTERY CELL SELECTION | Volvo Car Corporation | ONDRASIK, JOHN PAUL | 2859 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2022 |
| 17962640 | DIRECT REDUCTION SYSTEM UTILIZING HYDROGEN | Midrex Technologies, Inc. | MAYES, MELVIN C | 1759 | §112 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
| 17915812 | POLYPEPTIDE FOR THE PROPHYLAXIS AND TREATMENT OF VIRAL INFECTIONS | Pharis Biotec GmbH | D' AMBROSIO, THEA | 1654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 29, 2022 |
| 17902214 | ANTIMICROBIAL GLASS COMPOSITIONS, GLASSES AND POLYMERIC ARTICLES INCORPORATING THE SAME | Glass Technologies Limited | ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S | 1617 | Other | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Sep 02, 2022 |
| 17884070 | METHOD FOR RECYCLING SPENT REDUCTION GAS IN A DIRECT REDUCTION OF IRON ORE SYSTEM UTILIZING AN ELECTRIC GAS HEATER | Midrex Technologies, Inc. | WANG, NICHOLAS A | 1734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Aug 09, 2022 |
| 17557167 | Brake System for a Motor Vehicle and Method for Operating the Brake System | Volvo Car Corporation | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 21, 2021 |
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