Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 clients • 5 examiners • 3 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Merchant & Gould - Cox manages applications in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems, totaling 405 career applications. The firm boasts an exceptionally high resolved allowance rate of 97.15 percent. However, this high success rate comes with a significant investment in time, as evidenced by the 7.41 average office actions per allowance. This figure is notably high, suggesting a persistent approach to overcoming examiner rejections.
Currently, the firm has 6 pending office actions to address. The 97.15 percent allowance rate suggests a dedicated approach to prosecution, which is further supported by the 7.41 average office actions. This data indicates that while the path to allowance in these mechanical systems is long, the firm is nearly always successful in eventually securing the patent for its 405 applications. The 6 pending actions will likely follow this established pattern of intensive negotiation to reach a successful conclusion.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (20%) |
| §101 + other | 2 (40%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 1 | 82.9% | +17.2% |
| VELEZ, ROBERTO | 1 | 67.6% | +21.4% |
| GARG, YOGESH C | 1 | 61.7% | +33.4% |
| MONSUR, NASIMA | 1 | 78.5% | +26.7% |
| SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 1 | 6.3% | +8.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RECOMMENDATION | GARG, YOGESH C | 84d overdue |
| 18736738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A BATTERY PACK OF A VEHICLE | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| 18167635 | CENTRALIZED PLANNING AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM FOR GREENHOUSE GROWING OF HYDROPONIC GREENS | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RECOMMENDATION | GARG, YOGESH C | 84d overdue |
| 18622296 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TESTING OF A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 22d overdue |
| 18736738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A BATTERY PACK OF A VEHICLE | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | — |
| 18621482 | CONTACTOR WELD DETECTION | MONSUR, NASIMA | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Cox Automotive, Inc. | 4 |
| Brightfarms, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2858 | 2 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736738 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A BATTERY PACK OF A VEHICLE | Cox Automotive, Inc. | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 | |
| 18622296 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TESTING OF A RECHARGEABLE BATTERY | Cox Automotive, Inc. | VELEZ, ROBERTO | 2858 | §112 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18621514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE RECOMMENDATION | Cox Automotive, Inc. | GARG, YOGESH C | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 84d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18621482 | CONTACTOR WELD DETECTION | Cox Automotive, Inc. | MONSUR, NASIMA | 2858 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18167635 | CENTRALIZED PLANNING AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM FOR GREENHOUSE GROWING OF HYDROPONIC GREENS | Brightfarms, Inc. | SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N | 3624 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 10, 2023 |
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