Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Nikola Corporation

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (80%)
§102 only1 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
20% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
60% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PHAM, DUC M 1 88.6% +12.5%
LEE, TYLER J 1 92.0% +6.8%
ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 1 54.5% +47.5%
OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 1 63.2% +37.1%
PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 1 56.2% +50.0%

Quick Wins (2)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19045335 THERMAL COMPONENT PRIORITIZATION CONTROL LOGIC AND METHODS PHAM, DUC M 43d overdue
18919794 TORQUE MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE LEE, TYLER J 9d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19045335 THERMAL COMPONENT PRIORITIZATION CONTROL LOGIC AND METHODS PHAM, DUC M 43d overdue
18502833 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HYDROGEN FUEL OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 43d overdue
18322283 FUEL CELL THERMAL MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 33d
18752993 POWER CONTROL PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION FOR HYBRID VEHICLES ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 46d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2849 1
3663 1
3667 1
2118 1
3658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19045335 THERMAL COMPONENT PRIORITIZATION CONTROL LOGIC AND METHODS PHAM, DUC M 2849 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Feb 04, 2025
18919794 TORQUE MANAGEMENT IN MULTI-MOTOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE LEE, TYLER J 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Oct 18, 2024
18752993 POWER CONTROL PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION FOR HYBRID VEHICLES ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN 3667 §103 Non-Final OA 46d Pending Jun 25, 2024
18502833 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING HYDROGEN FUEL OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 2118 §102 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Nov 06, 2023
18322283 FUEL CELL THERMAL MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN 3658 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending May 23, 2023

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