Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
10 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 34 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kodiak Robotics Inc. maintains a patent portfolio with 11 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 10 distinct examiners and 10 distinct art units. This high level of distribution indicates that the company's technology spans a wide array of sub-disciplines, requiring the management of many different examiner relationships and art unit standards simultaneously. Practitioners must be prepared for a prosecution landscape where different units may have varying timelines and examination rigors.
The busiest examiner for Kodiak Robotics Inc. is LEVY, MERRITT E, who is handling 2 pending office actions. While LEVY, MERRITT E has the highest individual workload, this only accounts for a small portion of the 11 total pending office actions. The remaining actions are spread across other examiners, meaning that the vast majority of the portfolio is subject to unique individual reviews. This distribution suggests that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the company's overall prosecution outcomes, necessitating an adaptable legal strategy.
With 10 distinct art units involved, the portfolio is diversified across the USPTO's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems division. The fact that the 11 pending office actions are spread so widely shows that almost every matter is being treated as a distinct technical category. This variety requires practitioners to coordinate across multiple silos to ensure consistent messaging while respecting the unique procedural nuances of each involved art unit. The complexity of this portfolio reflects the diverse mechanical and electronic systems inherent in the company's innovation pipeline.
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 (80%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (20%) |
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 | 32.3% | +33.5% |
| PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 1 | 57.0% | +51.2% |
| FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 1 | 57.1% | +22.4% |
| HO, MATTHEW | 1 | 73.9% | +12.6% |
| WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | 1 | 23.8% | +94.1% |
| WILLIAMS, REBECCA COLETTE | 1 | 50.0% | +58.3% |
| FABER, DAVID | 1 | 50.9% | +37.1% |
| MILLNER, MONICA E | 1 | 77.5% | +22.2% |
| CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 1 | 69.5% | +21.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 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 |
| 18129705 | ROOF MOUNTED SENSOR POD ASSEMBLY | WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | 5d 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 |
| 18129705 | ROOF MOUNTED SENSOR POD ASSEMBLY | WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | 5d overdue |
| 17826031 | QUICK SWAP SENSOR POD AND BRACKET SYSTEM | MILLNER, MONICA E | 22d |
| 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 |
| 18364825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF A VEHICLE USING REMOTE OPERATION BASED ON PERCEPTION AND PLANNER DATA | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | — |
| 18364830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF GENERATING A TRAJECTORY OF A VEHICLE BY MIXING AUTONOMOUSLY GENERATED AND REMOTELY GENERATED VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 2677 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 18129705 | ROOF MOUNTED SENSOR POD ASSEMBLY | WAKELY, REECE ANTHONY | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | 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 |
| 17826031 | QUICK SWAP SENSOR POD AND BRACKET SYSTEM | MILLNER, MONICA E | 3632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
| 17826043 | CONNECTING ASSEMBLY FOR A SENSOR POD | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 3613 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 26, 2022 |
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