Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions focused in the Communications technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners, which shows that every active application is being reviewed by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to the specific preferences of each official rather than relying on a unified approach with a single contact. The variety of examiners could lead to different prosecution timelines for each of the pending office actions.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, suggesting some concentration of technical subject matter despite the variety of examiners involved. JONES, RAVEN SIMONE is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the total of pending office actions is split among the distinct examiners, the workload is evenly distributed, and no individual examiner holds a majority of the company's active Communications cases. This distribution requires a broad management approach to ensure consistency across the 2 distinct art units.
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 | 87.5% | +33.3% |
| JAGOLINZER, SCOTT ROSS | 1 | 41.9% | +23.4% |
| KRETZER, CASEY L | 1 | 86.8% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 2635 | 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 | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 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 |
| 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 |
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