Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Lucid Group Inc.

Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

20 pending office actions • 16 art units • 20 examiners • 0 of 20 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 67 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Lucid Group Inc. is currently managing 20 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 20 distinct examiners and 16 distinct art units. This equal number of pending actions and examiners indicates that no two applications are currently being reviewed by the same person. The involvement of 16 distinct art units highlights the technical breadth of the company's portfolio within the transportation sector.

MATES, ROBERT E is the busiest examiner, though they are currently handling only 1 of the pending office actions. Practitioners must manage the distinct examiners simultaneously, each operating within the specific frameworks of 16 different art units. This dispersed prosecution landscape requires a highly coordinated effort to ensure that technical arguments remain consistent across the many different examiners and art units involved.

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

Portfolio Summary

20
Total Pending OAs
10
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
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. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 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.

7
Hard (35%)
13
Medium (65%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only11 (55%)
§102 only2 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)7 (35%)

Industry Mix

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

2
Life Sciences
10% of docket
2
Information Tech
10% of docket
3
Communications
15% of docket
5
Semiconductors
25% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

200 h
Manual time on pending OAs
40 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
70 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
MATES, ROBERT E 1 57.3% +34.7%
PATEL, JAYESH A 1 83.7% +5.1%
PHAM, LINH K 1 80.9% +28.8%
JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 1 83.7% +15.5%
YESHAW, ESAYAS G 1 86.8% +11.4%
RATCLIFFE, LUKE D 1 87.2% +10.4%
NGO, STEVEN 1 69.2% +29.0%
LIM, STEVEN 1 68.9% +12.6%
LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW 1 65.2% +51.4%
VO, ETHAN NGUYEN 1 78.8% +10.2%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18924604 LOCALIZATION-BASED TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION PATEL, JAYESH A —
18720173 SIGNAL PROCESSING APPROXIMATING A STANDARDIZED STUDIO EXPERIENCE IN A VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM HAVING NON-STANDARD SPEAKER LOCATIONS JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A —
18657424 THERMISTOR BASED THERMAL RUNAWAY DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE YESHAW, ESAYAS G —
18705334 LIDAR DATA COMPRESSION AND PROCESSING RATCLIFFE, LUKE D —

Hard Cases (7)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18557482 STAMPED ENERGY ABSORPTION SIDE STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 45d overdue
18547103 BATTERY MODULE WITH OVERMOLDED BUSBAR MATHEW, ISWARYA 62d
19011066 ELECTRIC MOTOR TOPOLOGIES USING RARE EARTH AND/OR RARE EARTH FREE MAGNETS MATES, ROBERT E —
18902386 USER INTERFACE WITH INTERACTION MODEL FOR INTERACTING BETWEEN DISPLAYS PHAM, LINH K —
18704797 COOLER FOR POWER ELECTRONICS NGO, STEVEN —
18511864 MECHANICAL RETENTION OF ROTOR MAGNETS STEFANON, JUSTIN —
18510214 REINFORCING A STRUCTURE HAVING AN OPEN PROFILE USING A METAL PLATE MORROW, JASON S —

Interview Candidates (9)

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
18689308 MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC-VEHICLE DRIVE UNITS VO, ETHAN NGUYEN 78d overdue
18704846 AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM FOR VEHICLE MODE OR VEHICLE FUNCTION LIM, STEVEN 14d
19011066 ELECTRIC MOTOR TOPOLOGIES USING RARE EARTH AND/OR RARE EARTH FREE MAGNETS MATES, ROBERT E —
18902386 USER INTERFACE WITH INTERACTION MODEL FOR INTERACTING BETWEEN DISPLAYS PHAM, LINH K —
18720173 SIGNAL PROCESSING APPROXIMATING A STANDARDIZED STUDIO EXPERIENCE IN A VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM HAVING NON-STANDARD SPEAKER LOCATIONS JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A —
18657424 THERMISTOR BASED THERMAL RUNAWAY DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE YESHAW, ESAYAS G —
18705334 LIDAR DATA COMPRESSION AND PROCESSING RATCLIFFE, LUKE D —
18704797 COOLER FOR POWER ELECTRONICS NGO, STEVEN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2834 3
3645 2
3612 2
2677 1
2174 1
2695 1
2836 1
2835 1
2689 1
3746 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19011066 ELECTRIC MOTOR TOPOLOGIES USING RARE EARTH AND/OR RARE EARTH FREE MAGNETS MATES, ROBERT E 2834 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 06, 2025
18924604 LOCALIZATION-BASED TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION PATEL, JAYESH A 2677 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18902386 USER INTERFACE WITH INTERACTION MODEL FOR INTERACTING BETWEEN DISPLAYS PHAM, LINH K 2174 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2024
18720173 SIGNAL PROCESSING APPROXIMATING A STANDARDIZED STUDIO EXPERIENCE IN A VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM HAVING NON-STANDARD SPEAKER LOCATIONS JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A 2695 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 14, 2024
18657424 THERMISTOR BASED THERMAL RUNAWAY DETECTION SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE YESHAW, ESAYAS G 2836 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2024
18705334 LIDAR DATA COMPRESSION AND PROCESSING RATCLIFFE, LUKE D 3645 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 26, 2024
18704797 COOLER FOR POWER ELECTRONICS NGO, STEVEN 2835 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2024
18704846 AUTHENTICATION MECHANISM FOR VEHICLE MODE OR VEHICLE FUNCTION LIM, STEVEN 2689 §102 Final Rejection 14d Pending Apr 25, 2024
18698202 VEHICLE AIR DUCT WITH FIBER-FILM LAMINATE LETTMAN, BRYAN MATTHEW 3746 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 03, 2024
18689308 MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC-VEHICLE DRIVE UNITS VO, ETHAN NGUYEN 2834 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Mar 05, 2024
18590832 VEHICLE-TO-GRID COMMUNICATION COMPLIANCE FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES WORKU, KIDEST 2119 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 28, 2024
18543164 ELECTRIC-VEHICLE DRIVE UNIT SYSTEM WITH AXIAL COUPLING SWENSON, BRIAN L 3613 §102 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Dec 18, 2023
18511864 MECHANICAL RETENTION OF ROTOR MAGNETS STEFANON, JUSTIN 2834 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 16, 2023
18561595 VEHICLE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH PROTECTIVE FILM TO CONTAIN GLASS FRAGMENTS FLORES JR, DONALD M 1781 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Nov 16, 2023
18510214 REINFORCING A STRUCTURE HAVING AN OPEN PROFILE USING A METAL PLATE MORROW, JASON S 3612 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 15, 2023
18510184 HIDDEN ACCESS FOR MANUALLY RELEASING LATCH OF VEHICLE BACK DOOR PAPE, JOSEPH 3612 §103 Final Rejection 35d Pending Nov 15, 2023
18557482 STAMPED ENERGY ABSORPTION SIDE STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE FULLER, ROBERT EDWARD 3676 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Oct 26, 2023
18547103 BATTERY MODULE WITH OVERMOLDED BUSBAR MATHEW, ISWARYA 1788 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Aug 18, 2023
18329032 CONTROLLING VAPOR COMPRESSION COOLING IN A THERMAL SYSTEM COMINGS, DANIEL C 3763 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 05, 2023
18192611 LANE BOUNDARY DETECTION USING SUB-SHORT RANGE ACTIVE LIGHT SENSOR MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L 3645 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Lucid Group Inc. have?

Lucid Group Inc. has 20 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 16 art units and 20 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Lucid Group Inc. applications?

Robert E Mates has the most, with 1 of Lucid Group Inc.'s pending office actions.

What technology area are Lucid Group Inc.'s patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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