Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 2 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
REISING ETHINGTON-BORGWARNER focuses on the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area with 188 career applications. The firm has secured a resolved allowance rate pct of 86.96. Prosecution requires 2.98 average office actions per allowance, and there are 6 pending office actions currently active.
The 86.96 resolved allowance rate pct across 188 career applications shows a consistent ability to obtain patents in the semiconductor field. The 2.98 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for the expected duration of the prosecution cycle. This average suggests that most applications reach allowance after approximately three rounds of correspondence.
With 6 pending office actions, the firm maintains a presence in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The 86.96 resolved allowance rate pct indicates that the firm's strategy is effective for its 188 career applications. Practitioners can use the 2.98 average office actions per allowance to estimate the resources needed for successful prosecution in this technical domain.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 65.8% | +6.9% |
| BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 1 | 60.3% | +38.0% |
| PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | 1 | 83.9% | +13.8% |
| DHAKAL, BICKEY | 1 | 84.2% | +16.5% |
| HENZE, DAVID V | 1 | 69.7% | +23.2% |
| ORTIZ, ELIM | 1 | 79.4% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649296 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY PULSED ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM | DHAKAL, BICKEY | 53d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988074 | PILOT VALVE SEAT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC VALVE | LANE, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18939584 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) GEARBOX ASSEMBLY | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | — |
| 18753325 | THREE PHASE TO SINGLE PHASE POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18649296 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY PULSED ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM | DHAKAL, BICKEY | 53d |
| 18939584 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) GEARBOX ASSEMBLY | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | — |
| 18753325 | THREE PHASE TO SINGLE PHASE POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | — |
| 18702475 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE SUPPLY EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | HENZE, DAVID V | — |
| 18638776 | STATIONARY BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGERS WITH ENHANCED POWER MODULES | ORTIZ, ELIM | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| BorgWarner | 5 |
| Borgwarner Automotive Components (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| 2836 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18988074 | PILOT VALVE SEAT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC VALVE | Borgwarner Automotive Components (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. | LANE, NICHOLAS J | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 | |
| 18939584 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) GEARBOX ASSEMBLY | BORGWARNER, INC. | BROWN, JOSEPH HENRY | 3618 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2024 |
| 18753325 | THREE PHASE TO SINGLE PHASE POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT | BORGWARNER, INC. | PEREZ, BRYAN REYNALDO | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18649296 | VARIABLE FREQUENCY PULSED ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEM | BORGWARNER, INC. | DHAKAL, BICKEY | 2896 | §102 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Apr 29, 2024 |
| 18702475 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE SUPPLY EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | BORGWARNER, INC. | HENZE, DAVID V | 2859 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18638776 | STATIONARY BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGERS WITH ENHANCED POWER MODULES | BORGWARNER, INC. | ORTIZ, ELIM | 2836 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial87.1% of resolved applications prosecuted by Reising Ethington-Borgwarner were allowed, across 189 applications in USPTO records.
2.97 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.