Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Five AI Limited

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

17 pending office actions • 15 art units • 17 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Five AI Limited has 16 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The matters involve 16 distinct examiners and 14 distinct art units, indicating that nearly every matter has a separate examiner assignment and that prosecution reaches several technical groups.

LEE, BRANDON DONGPA is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Examiner concentration is therefore limited, making centralized docket controls and reusable technical explanations useful for maintaining consistency without treating the matters as a single examination proceeding.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

17
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
6
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

1
Overdue
1
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (1)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (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.

9
Hard (53%)
7
Medium (41%)
1
Easy (6%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (12%)
§101 + other5 (29%)
§103 only7 (41%)
§112 only1 (6%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
7
Information Tech
41% of docket
4
Communications
24% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
5
Mechanical / Eng
29% of docket
1
Business / Other
6% 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.

170 h
Manual time on pending OAs
34 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
59 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LEE, BRANDON DONGPA 1 77.5% +23.7%
KLEINMAN, LAIL A 1 70.5% +16.2%
YANG, WEI WEN 1 81.8% +11.7%
CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN 1 88.2% +14.4%
GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 1 33.0% +7.7%
WEISENFELD, ARYAN E 1 41.7% +24.9%
MELTON, TODD M 1 84.2% +17.9%
JEON, JAE UK 1 74.8% +44.3%
HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 1 82.3% +21.5%
LOUIE, WAE LENNY 1 84.9% +7.9%

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
18998957 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PERCEPTION OF 2D OR 3D SCENES YANG, WEI WEN —

Hard Cases (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18742965 DRIVING SCENARIOS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES MELTON, TODD M 9d overdue
18008145 SIMULATION IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 27d
19156348 MAP ANNOTATION DATA GENERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES LEE, BRANDON DONGPA —
18927754 PERCEPTION UNCERTAINTY CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN —
18835462 TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR MOBILE AGENTS WEISENFELD, ARYAN E —
18707057 PERFORMANCE TESTING FOR MOBILE ROBOT TRAJECTORY PLANNERS JEON, JAE UK —
18695786 ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ON PERCEPTION COMPONENTS HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON —
18684606 SUPPORT TOOLS FOR AV TESTING LOUIE, WAE LENNY —

Interview Candidates (8)

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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18742965 DRIVING SCENARIOS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES MELTON, TODD M 9d overdue
19156348 MAP ANNOTATION DATA GENERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES LEE, BRANDON DONGPA —
19144356 CONTROLLING SPEED OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE KLEINMAN, LAIL A —
18998957 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PERCEPTION OF 2D OR 3D SCENES YANG, WEI WEN —
18927754 PERCEPTION UNCERTAINTY CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN —
18835462 TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR MOBILE AGENTS WEISENFELD, ARYAN E —
18707057 PERFORMANCE TESTING FOR MOBILE ROBOT TRAJECTORY PLANNERS JEON, JAE UK —
18695786 ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ON PERCEPTION COMPONENTS HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2186 2
3662 1
3661 1
2662 1
2669 1
3668 1
3663 1
3669 1
2193 1
2127 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19156348 MAP ANNOTATION DATA GENERATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES LEE, BRANDON DONGPA 3662 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 13, 2025
19144356 CONTROLLING SPEED OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE KLEINMAN, LAIL A 3661 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2025
18998957 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PERCEPTION OF 2D OR 3D SCENES YANG, WEI WEN 2662 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 27, 2025
18927754 PERCEPTION UNCERTAINTY CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN 2669 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 25, 2024
18835554 TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR MOBILE AGENTS GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 3668 §103 Final Rejection 71d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18835462 TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR MOBILE AGENTS WEISENFELD, ARYAN E 3663 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 02, 2024
18742965 DRIVING SCENARIOS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES MELTON, TODD M 3669 §102§103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Jun 13, 2024
18707057 PERFORMANCE TESTING FOR MOBILE ROBOT TRAJECTORY PLANNERS JEON, JAE UK 2193 §101 Final Rejection — Pending May 02, 2024
18695786 ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS ON PERCEPTION COMPONENTS HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 2127 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2024
18684606 SUPPORT TOOLS FOR AV TESTING LOUIE, WAE LENNY — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 16, 2024
18564496 TOOLS FOR PERFORMANCE TESTING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PLANNERS HOCKER, JOHN PAUL 2189 §101§102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2023
18287370 3D PERCEPTION BILODEAU, DUSTIN E 2664 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2023
18274181 GENERATING SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS FOR TESTING AV BEHAVIOUR GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2023
18272916 EXTRACTING FEATURES FROM SENSOR DATA CAI, PHUONG HAU 2673 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 18, 2023
18011047 PERFORMANCE TESTING FOR ROBOTIC SYSTEMS GONZALES, VINCENT 2124 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 16, 2022
18008127 OPERATIONAL DESIGN DOMAINS IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING JOHNSON, CEDRIC D 2186 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Dec 02, 2022
18008145 SIMULATION IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW 2188 §101§103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Dec 02, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Five AI Limited have?

Five AI Limited has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 15 art units and 17 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Five AI Limited applications?

Brandon Dongpa Lee has the most, with 1 of Five AI Limited's pending office actions.

What technology area are Five AI Limited's patent applications in?

Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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