Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
19 pending office actions • 4 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 19 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Luminar Technologies Inc. currently faces 19 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This volume of pending matters is handled by 16 distinct examiners, showing that the company's prosecution efforts are spread across a range of individual reviewers. Despite the number of examiners, these actions are concentrated within only 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the underlying technologies fall under a limited number of supervisory groups.
The busiest examiner, HELLNER, MARK, is assigned 2 pending office actions. Since the busiest examiner handles only 2 of the 19 total actions, the portfolio exhibits a distribution across 16 distinct examiners. This requires the company to manage responses for many individuals simultaneously. However, the focus on 4 distinct art units may allow for some consistency in the legal arguments used, as the examiners likely share common departmental guidelines. The 19 pending office actions represent the current administrative load that is dispersed among the 16 distinct examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 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. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (5%) |
| §103 only | 8 (42%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLNER, MARK | 2 | 90.4% | +8.5% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 2 | 79.7% | +12.6% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2 | 69.8% | +47.5% |
| MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | 1 | 72.0% | +29.3% |
| CHEN, CHIA-LING | 1 | 51.3% | +42.0% |
| SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | 1 | — | — |
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 1 | 76.0% | +30.7% |
| DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 1 | — | — |
| ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 1 | — | — |
| TRIDICO, JOHN CESARE | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18526327 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CHANNEL COUNT | HELLNER, MARK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18095457 | LIDAR GROUND PLANE DETECTION USING PROJECTED AND FILTERED DATA | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 4d overdue |
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 18333435 | SMALL APERTURE OPTICAL PERISCOPE FOR LIDAR | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 36d |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 36d |
| 18960941 | LIDAR RECEIVER OPTICAL LIMITER | HELLNER, MARK | — |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18432722 | NOISE, VIBRATION, AND HARSHNESS (NVH) OPTIMIZATION | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 18977241 | INTEGRATED LIDAR AND RADAR SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18381982 | CALIBRATED OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| 17961650 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SPECTRALLY ENCODED LIGHT PULSES | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 7 |
| 4100 | 3 |
| 2828 | 2 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18977241 | INTEGRATED LIDAR AND RADAR SYSTEM | MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18960941 | LIDAR RECEIVER OPTICAL LIMITER | HELLNER, MARK | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18432722 | NOISE, VIBRATION, AND HARSHNESS (NVH) OPTIMIZATION | SINGH, AVIRAJ DONGSOOK | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18535212 | NEAR RANGE OBJECT DETECTION | DECARIA, MICHAEL ALEX | 4100 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18526327 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CHANNEL COUNT | HELLNER, MARK | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18514575 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER LASER DIODE SYSTEM | ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18511816 | LIDAR ROTATIONAL SCANNER-INDUCED OFFSET COMPENSATION | TRIDICO, JOHN CESARE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18381982 | CALIBRATED OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18333435 | SMALL APERTURE OPTICAL PERISCOPE FOR LIDAR | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 18095457 | LIDAR GROUND PLANE DETECTION USING PROJECTED AND FILTERED DATA | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 18093041 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH DETECTOR ARRAY | WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 17961650 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SPECTRALLY ENCODED LIGHT PULSES | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2022 |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
| 17736887 | DUAL-WAVELENGTH LIDAR SYSTEM WITH COINCIDENCE DETECTION AND PULSE ENCODING | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
| 17385312 | LIDAR TRANSCEIVER WITH COAXIAL TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE PATH | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jul 26, 2021 |
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