Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Apollo Autonomous Driving USA LLC

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
2
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
40% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN 1 79.9% +27.0%
SMITH, CHENECA 1 69.9% +46.8%
RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL 1 72.7% +40.0%
CHUANG, SU-TING 1 50.0% +37.2%
CAMERON, ATTICUS A 1 83.1% +7.7%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18117294 REDUNDANT DRIVE BY WIRE STEERING SYSTEM CONTROL FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE CAMERON, ATTICUS A 3d overdue

Interview Candidates (4)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18220470 CPLD FIRMWARE OVER THE AIR UPDATES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES SMITH, CHENECA 80d overdue
18219506 FMCW RADAR AND LIDAR SIGNAL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL 72d overdue
18503702 HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONICS SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN 70d overdue
18327707 GENERALIZED EVOLUTIONARY TRAINING FRAMEWORKS FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS CHUANG, SU-TING 28d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2835 1
2192 1
3646 1
2146 1
3658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18503702 HYBRID LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONICS SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN 2835 §103 Final Rejection 70d overdue Pending Nov 07, 2023
18220470 CPLD FIRMWARE OVER THE AIR UPDATES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES SMITH, CHENECA 2192 §103 Final Rejection 80d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2023
18219506 FMCW RADAR AND LIDAR SIGNAL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL 3646 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18327707 GENERALIZED EVOLUTIONARY TRAINING FRAMEWORKS FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS CHUANG, SU-TING 2146 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Jun 01, 2023
18117294 REDUNDANT DRIVE BY WIRE STEERING SYSTEM CONTROL FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING VEHICLE CAMERON, ATTICUS A 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 03, 2023

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