Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kodiak Robotics Inc. has 8 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket spans 7 distinct examiners and 7 distinct art units, showing broad distribution across examination personnel and technical groups.
LEVY, MERRITT E is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. That examiner-specific cluster merits coordinated review, while the other pending matters require separate analysis of their assigned examination settings and claim issues.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 7 (78%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (22%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVY, MERRITT E | 2 | 31.7% | +35.6% |
| FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 1 | 56.9% | +22.0% |
| HO, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.5% | +12.7% |
| PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 1 | 57.4% | +51.6% |
| WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 1 | 88.8% | +9.4% |
| WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 1 | 50.0% | +58.3% |
| FABER, DAVID | 1 | 50.8% | +36.9% |
| CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 1 | 69.7% | +20.9% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18129708 | ROOF MOUNTED SENSOR POD ASSEMBLY | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A HEATMAP CORRESPONDING TO AN ENVIRONMENT OF A VEHICLE | WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 29d overdue |
| 17826043 | CONNECTING ASSEMBLY FOR A SENSOR POD | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18179075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A HEATMAP CORRESPONDING TO AN ENVIRONMENT OF A VEHICLE | WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 29d overdue |
| 18364816 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING AUTONOMOUS AND REMOTE OPERATION | LEVY, MERRITT E | 46d |
| 18364822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VEHICLE ACTUATOR COMMANDS BASED ON VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES | LEVY, MERRITT E | 49d |
| 18364819 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING FALLBACK-ENABLED REMOTE OPERATION | HO, MATTHEW | 56d |
| 18364830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GENERATING A TRAJECTORY OF A VEHICLE BY MIXING AUTONOMOUSLY GENERATED AND REMOTELY GENERATED VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | — |
| 18364825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF A VEHICLE USING REMOTE OPERATION BASED ON PERCEPTION AND PLANNER DATA | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | — |
| 18178720 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND LABELING A COLLIDABILITY OF ONE OR MORE OBSTACLES ALONG TRAJECTORIES OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | FABER, DAVID | — |
| 17826043 | CONNECTING ASSEMBLY FOR A SENSOR POD | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18364816 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING AUTONOMOUS AND REMOTE OPERATION | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18364830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GENERATING A TRAJECTORY OF A VEHICLE BY MIXING AUTONOMOUSLY GENERATED AND REMOTELY GENERATED VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18364819 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE CONTROL USING FALLBACK-ENABLED REMOTE OPERATION | HO, MATTHEW | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18364825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF A VEHICLE USING REMOTE OPERATION BASED ON PERCEPTION AND PLANNER DATA | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18364822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING VEHICLE ACTUATOR COMMANDS BASED ON VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d | Pending | Aug 03, 2023 |
| 18129708 | ROOF MOUNTED SENSOR POD ASSEMBLY | WILLIAMS, JAMEL E | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2023 |
| 18179075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A HEATMAP CORRESPONDING TO AN ENVIRONMENT OF A VEHICLE | WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 2677 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 18178720 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND LABELING A COLLIDABILITY OF ONE OR MORE OBSTACLES ALONG TRAJECTORIES OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
| 17826043 | CONNECTING ASSEMBLY FOR A SENSOR POD | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 3613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialKodiak Robotics Inc. has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 8 examiners.
Merritt E Levy has the most, with 2 of Kodiak Robotics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
