Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Anhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, indicating that the company's autonomous driving technologies are being evaluated under several different classification standards. The portfolio is currently being reviewed by distinct examiners, with each handling a portion of the workload. This distribution requires a flexible approach to address the unique requirements of each art unit.
JONES, RAVEN SIMONE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. With the distinct examiners each handling an action, the company must navigate separate examination paths simultaneously. This distribution across the 3 art units and examiners suggests a decentralized prosecution environment where outcomes in one matter may not directly influence the others. Practitioners should prepare for a variety of examiner preferences within the Communications area, as the 3 pending actions are spread across multiple units and individuals.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, RAVEN SIMONE | 1 | 91.7% | +14.3% |
| KRETZER, CASEY L | 1 | 86.8% | +12.8% |
| JAGOLINZER, SCOTT ROSS | 1 | 40.0% | +23.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18876295 | POINT CLOUD OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | JONES, RAVEN SIMONE | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411370 | TRAFFIC LIGHT PERCEPTION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | KRETZER, CASEY L | 26d |
| 18411352 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING VEHICLE TRAJECTORY, CONTROL DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | JAGOLINZER, SCOTT ROSS | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18411370 | TRAFFIC LIGHT PERCEPTION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | KRETZER, CASEY L | 26d |
| 18876295 | POINT CLOUD OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | JONES, RAVEN SIMONE | — |
| 18411352 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING VEHICLE TRAJECTORY, CONTROL DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | JAGOLINZER, SCOTT ROSS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2665 | 1 |
| 2635 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18876295 | POINT CLOUD OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | JONES, RAVEN SIMONE | 2665 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18411370 | TRAFFIC LIGHT PERCEPTION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | KRETZER, CASEY L | 2635 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18411352 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING VEHICLE TRAJECTORY, CONTROL DEVICE, READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | JAGOLINZER, SCOTT ROSS | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialAnhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Raven Simone Jones has the most, with 1 of Anhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
