Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cepton Technologies Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners but are contained within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a unified technical focus for the pending applications. The company is currently managing multiple points of review within the same specialized group.
The busiest examiner is BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 total pending actions. The use of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit provides the company with different perspectives within the same technical specialty. Practitioners should note that while the art unit is the same, the 2 different examiners may have varying interpretations of the technology. Managing 2 pending office actions across 2 distinct examiners requires a coordinated approach to ensure consistency in arguments. The company's current workload is evenly distributed, with each examiner managing 1 case.
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 | 2 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
| HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18138293 | DOUBLE-SIDED FLEXURE FOR LINEAR LIDAR SCANNING | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 15d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18200451 | MULTI-SOURCE LIDAR | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18200451 | MULTI-SOURCE LIDAR | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 22, 2023 |
| 18138293 | DOUBLE-SIDED FLEXURE FOR LINEAR LIDAR SCANNING | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2023 |
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