Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
Canoo Technologies Inc. is currently engaged in the patent prosecution process within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 6 pending office actions, which indicates a high level of activity in securing its intellectual property. These pending matters are spread across 5 distinct art units, suggesting that the innovations in transportation and mechanical systems are technically diverse and require review from 5 different specialized examination divisions. This breadth requires a strategy that accounts for various technical standards.
The prosecution involves 6 distinct examiners, so each pending office action is being reviewed by a unique individual. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DOUGLAS, STEVEN O, who is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The fact that there are 6 examiners for 6 pending actions across 5 art units shows a decentralized prosecution landscape. Practitioners must be prepared to navigate various examiner styles and the specific requirements of the 5 art units to successfully move these 6 pending actions toward allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | 1 | 79.1% | +11.2% |
| ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 1 | 42.0% | +25.7% |
| ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE | 1 | 71.7% | +38.2% |
| JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1 | 69.8% | +14.9% |
| TRUONG, MINH D | 1 | 67.3% | +23.9% |
| GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES | 1 | 47.6% | +53.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17819587 | VANISHING POINT DETERMINATION, SYMMETRY-BASED BOUNDARY REFINEMENT, AND COMPONENT DETECTION FOR VEHICLE OBJECT DETECTION OR OTHER APPLICATIONS | ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE | 20d |
| 17814204 | MITIGATING THERMAL RUNAWAY OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17660329 | COST-EFFECTIVE ELECTRIC VEHICLE DRIVE UNIT COOLING AND LUBRICATION SYSTEM | TRUONG, MINH D | 476d overdue |
| 17754061 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS | GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES | 44d overdue |
| 17819587 | VANISHING POINT DETERMINATION, SYMMETRY-BASED BOUNDARY REFINEMENT, AND COMPONENT DETECTION FOR VEHICLE OBJECT DETECTION OR OTHER APPLICATIONS | ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE | 20d |
| 18806278 | VEHICLE INTERCHANGEABLE CARTRIDGE | DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | — |
| 17821962 | ENTROPY OF PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION (EPD)-BASED CONFIDENCE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS OR OTHER APPLICATIONS | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | — |
| 17814204 | MITIGATING THERMAL RUNAWAY OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18806278 | VEHICLE INTERCHANGEABLE CARTRIDGE | DOUGLAS, STEVEN O | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 17821962 | ENTROPY OF PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTION (EPD)-BASED CONFIDENCE SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS OR OTHER APPLICATIONS | ANFINRUD, GABRIEL P | 3662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 24, 2022 |
| 17819587 | VANISHING POINT DETERMINATION, SYMMETRY-BASED BOUNDARY REFINEMENT, AND COMPONENT DETECTION FOR VEHICLE OBJECT DETECTION OR OTHER APPLICATIONS | ALLEN, LUCIUS CAMERON GREE | 2673 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
| 17814204 | MITIGATING THERMAL RUNAWAY OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES | JELSMA, JONATHAN G | 1723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 21, 2022 |
| 17660329 | COST-EFFECTIVE ELECTRIC VEHICLE DRIVE UNIT COOLING AND LUBRICATION SYSTEM | TRUONG, MINH D | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 476d overdue | Pending | Apr 22, 2022 |
| 17754061 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS | GASCA ALVA JR, MOISES | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2022 |
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