Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hybrid Lidar Systems AG operates a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action currently active. This indicates a very specific focus in their current patenting efforts, likely targeting a core component of their lidar technology. The limited number of active cases suggests a deliberate and controlled expansion of their intellectual property rights.
The prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the patent office has assigned the company's current work to a specialized group. RACHEL NICOLE NGUYEN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing the busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is the only official currently reviewing the company's pending claims, which allows for a unified technical dialogue between the applicant and the office.
For the applicant, the involvement of only 1 distinct art unit means that the technical arguments are highly contained. Because there is the pending office action, the legal strategy is entirely dependent on the feedback from RACHEL NICOLE NGUYEN. This focused prosecution environment allows for a concentrated effort to overcome any rejections within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector, ensuring that the response is perfectly aligned with the examiner's specific technical expectations.
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 | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 1 | 27.1% | +55.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17436274 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECTS, AND VEHICLES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17436274 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECTS, AND VEHICLES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17436274 | APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECTS, AND VEHICLES | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 03, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialHybrid Lidar Systems AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Rachel Nicole Nguyen has the most, with 1 of Hybrid Lidar Systems AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.