Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
20 pending office actions • 11 art units • 19 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 43 patents granted in the last 365 days
Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH currently has 20 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 11 distinct art units, reflecting a set of automotive and autonomous technologies. The involvement of 19 distinct examiners indicates that most cases are being reviewed by different individuals.
Malikasim, Jonathan L is the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions. With 20 pending office actions and 19 distinct examiners, the company faces a fragmented prosecution environment. The 11 distinct art units further diversify the examination standards applied to the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 3 (15%) |
| §103 only | 6 (30%) |
| §102 only | 2 (10%) |
| §112 only | 2 (10%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (5%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (30%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 2 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
| LEE, TYLER J | 1 | 91.8% | +6.7% |
| ALGAHAIM, HELAL A | 1 | 76.5% | +15.0% |
| SIDDIQUI, MD SAIFUL A | 1 | 79.5% | +15.7% |
| ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE | 1 | 71.9% | +28.7% |
| KARWAN, SIHAR A | 1 | 56.5% | +26.9% |
| LEE, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 82.2% | +10.8% |
| FRY, MATTHEW A | 1 | 32.0% | +30.8% |
| NGO, HUNG V | 1 | 81.1% | -34.9% |
| PATEL, JAYESH A | 1 | 83.7% | +4.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698427 | Extrinsic geometric calibration method for a three-dimensional-data acquisition system | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
| 18697759 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A LIDAR DEVICE WITH DESCRIPTORS EMPLOYING DISTANCE EVALUATION | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720752 | HOUSING WITH SHIELDING FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION | NGO, HUNG V | 8d overdue |
| 19243444 | Method for an autonomously driving vehicle for storing environmental detection data in a permanent memory | LEE, TYLER J | — |
| 18860779 | TRANSPORTATION DEVICE, COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR AFFIXING ONTO A MOVABLE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING A MOVABLE DEVICE | ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE | — |
| 18827990 | COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING THE SURROUNDINGS WITH BINARY POWER MODULATION AND LITTLE PROCESSING OUTLAY | LEE, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18818662 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND A VEHICLE | FRY, MATTHEW A | — |
| 18716053 | METHOD FOR COMBINING SENSOR DATA IN THE CONTEXT OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK | PATEL, JAYESH A | — |
| 18714492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTIES IN OUTPUT DATA FROM A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM | VO, STEVEN | — |
| 18701651 | PROCESSING OF LIDAR SENSOR DATA | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18858347 | METHOD FOR MONITORING WHETHER A VEHICLE HAS CROSSED A BOUNDARY OF A ZONE IN WHICH THE VEHICLE CAN DRIVE, AND DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 17d overdue |
| 19113784 | METHOD FOR FOCUSING THE RADAR DETECTION FOR A RELATIVE MOVEMENT | ALGAHAIM, HELAL A | — |
| 18961738 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT, VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | SIDDIQUI, MD SAIFUL A | — |
| 18860779 | TRANSPORTATION DEVICE, COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR AFFIXING ONTO A MOVABLE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING A MOVABLE DEVICE | ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE | — |
| 18827990 | COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING THE SURROUNDINGS WITH BINARY POWER MODULATION AND LITTLE PROCESSING OUTLAY | LEE, NICHOLAS J | — |
| 18818662 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND A VEHICLE | FRY, MATTHEW A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 6215 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 2664 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19243444 | Method for an autonomously driving vehicle for storing environmental detection data in a permanent memory | LEE, TYLER J | 3663 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2025 |
| 19113784 | METHOD FOR FOCUSING THE RADAR DETECTION FOR A RELATIVE MOVEMENT | ALGAHAIM, HELAL A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 18961738 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT, VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A SENSOR ARRANGEMENT | SIDDIQUI, MD SAIFUL A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18860779 | TRANSPORTATION DEVICE, COUPLING ASSEMBLY FOR AFFIXING ONTO A MOVABLE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DRIVING A MOVABLE DEVICE | ANDA, JENNIFER MARIE | 3662 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18858347 | METHOD FOR MONITORING WHETHER A VEHICLE HAS CROSSED A BOUNDARY OF A ZONE IN WHICH THE VEHICLE CAN DRIVE, AND DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM | KARWAN, SIHAR A | 3658 | §102 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18827990 | COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING THE SURROUNDINGS WITH BINARY POWER MODULATION AND LITTLE PROCESSING OUTLAY | LEE, NICHOLAS J | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18818662 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF AN ENVIRONMENT AROUND A VEHICLE | FRY, MATTHEW A | 6215 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18720752 | HOUSING WITH SHIELDING FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION | NGO, HUNG V | 2841 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
| 18716053 | METHOD FOR COMBINING SENSOR DATA IN THE CONTEXT OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK | PATEL, JAYESH A | 2677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18714492 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTIES IN OUTPUT DATA FROM A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM | VO, STEVEN | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18672171 | Method for estimating the dimensions of an object from points acquired by a lidar sensor | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18701651 | PROCESSING OF LIDAR SENSOR DATA | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18698427 | Extrinsic geometric calibration method for a three-dimensional-data acquisition system | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18697759 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A LIDAR DEVICE WITH DESCRIPTORS EMPLOYING DISTANCE EVALUATION | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18681040 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL LANE FOR A VEHICLE | STANLEY, KAVITA | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2024 |
| 18580394 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A VEHICLE EXITING ITS LANE | LINHARDT, LAURA E | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18495401 | METHOD FOR CREATING AND PROVIDING AN ENHANCED ENVIRONMENT MAP | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | 3669 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18252710 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF A LANE | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 11, 2023 |
| 18157948 | COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY REPRESENTATION FOR TRAFFIC PARTICIPANTS | AYAD, MARIA S | 2172 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 17816808 | METHOD AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MERGING SENSOR DATA AND VEHICLE HAVING A SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MERGING SENSOR DATA | ELLIOTT, JORDAN MCKENZIE | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2022 |
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