Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
16 pending office actions • 3 art units • 14 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Innovusion Inc. manages a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are 16 pending office actions currently active. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing a concentration of technical focus. The portfolio involves 14 distinct examiners, which suggests that multiple examiners are working within the same art units.
GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 2 pending office actions. This examiner's workload represents a portion of the 16 pending office actions. The presence of 14 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology frequently lands in specific areas of the USPTO. Practitioners should be prepared for varied examiner perspectives.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 8 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 2 | — | — |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 2 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
| AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 1 | — | — |
| WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 1 | 65.5% | +41.7% |
| FLORES, MARK ANTHONY | 1 | — | — |
| NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 1 | 85.5% | +15.6% |
| NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 1 | 73.9% | +27.5% |
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 1 | 76.0% | +30.7% |
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
| RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +32.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18375961 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH PULSE STEERING IN LIDAR SYSTEMS | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | — |
| 18126053 | METHOD FOR ACCURATE TIME-OF-FLIGHT CALCULATION ON THE COST-EFFECTIVE TOF LIDAR SYSTEM | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18092866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCANNING A REGION OF INTEREST USING A LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SCANNER | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 38d overdue |
| 18126240 | REAL-TIME MONITORING DC OFFSET OF ADC DATA OF LIDAR SYSTEM | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 26d |
| 18511982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POLYGON MIRROR ANGLES ADJUSTMENT | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 27d |
| 18533048 | INTERFERENCE REDUCTION | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | — |
| 18389406 | UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED ILLUMINATION FOR DEPTH SENSOR | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | — |
| 18387818 | LIDAR INTEGRATED VEHICLE LIGHTS | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | — |
| 18383426 | LASER SOURCE WITH MULTIPLE SEEDS FOR LIDAR | FLORES, MARK ANTHONY | — |
| 17838110 | TRANSMITTER CHANNELS OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS | 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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18126240 | REAL-TIME MONITORING DC OFFSET OF ADC DATA OF LIDAR SYSTEM | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 26d |
| 18511982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POLYGON MIRROR ANGLES ADJUSTMENT | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 27d |
| 17975539 | COMPACT LIDAR SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING OBJECTS IN BLIND-SPOT AREAS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 28d |
| 18375961 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH PULSE STEERING IN LIDAR SYSTEMS | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | — |
| 18374620 | STRAY LIGHT FILTER STRUCTURES FOR LIDAR DETECTOR ARRAY | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| 18370224 | WAVELENGTH STABILITY OF MULTIJUNCTION DIODE LASER IN LIDAR | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | — |
| 18234799 | LOW-PROFILE LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SINGLE POLYGON AND MULTIPLE OSCILLATING MIRROR SCANNERS | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 11 |
| 4100 | 4 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18533048 | INTERFERENCE REDUCTION | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18511982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POLYGON MIRROR ANGLES ADJUSTMENT | WRIGHT, ANDREW RUSSELL | 2872 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18389406 | UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED ILLUMINATION FOR DEPTH SENSOR | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18387818 | LIDAR INTEGRATED VEHICLE LIGHTS | GARDINER, JOSH CHARLES | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18383426 | LASER SOURCE WITH MULTIPLE SEEDS FOR LIDAR | FLORES, MARK ANTHONY | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
| 18375961 | MULTI-WAVELENGTH PULSE STEERING IN LIDAR SYSTEMS | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18374620 | STRAY LIGHT FILTER STRUCTURES FOR LIDAR DETECTOR ARRAY | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18370224 | WAVELENGTH STABILITY OF MULTIJUNCTION DIODE LASER IN LIDAR | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 19, 2023 |
| 18234799 | LOW-PROFILE LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SINGLE POLYGON AND MULTIPLE OSCILLATING MIRROR SCANNERS | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18126053 | METHOD FOR ACCURATE TIME-OF-FLIGHT CALCULATION ON THE COST-EFFECTIVE TOF LIDAR SYSTEM | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18126240 | REAL-TIME MONITORING DC OFFSET OF ADC DATA OF LIDAR SYSTEM | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 3645 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18126059 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF GALVANOMETER MIRROR ZERO POSITION ANGLE OFFSET AND FAULT DETECTION IN LIDAR | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Mar 24, 2023 |
| 18124526 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF WINDOW BLOCKAGE DETECTION FOR LIDAR | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18092866 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCANNING A REGION OF INTEREST USING A LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SCANNER | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2023 |
| 17975539 | COMPACT LIDAR SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING OBJECTS IN BLIND-SPOT AREAS | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Oct 27, 2022 |
| 17838110 | TRANSMITTER CHANNELS OF LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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