Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ommatidia Lidar S L is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by a distinct examiner, SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB, within 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB is responsible for the 1 pending office action.
The presence of only a single pending office action suggests a focused prosecution effort within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Because the workload is limited to a single examiner and a single art unit, the company's immediate patent outcomes depend on the specific interpretation of SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB. This lack of diversification across examiners means that there are no internal benchmarks to compare examiner behavior for this portfolio.
For practitioners, the pending office action represents the total current activity for the company at the patent office. The 1 distinct art unit involved will provide the regulatory context for the examination. Since SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB is the only examiner with a pending office action, their past decisions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems will be the most relevant indicator for future results.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556030 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SUPRESSED DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFT | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556030 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH SUPRESSED DOPPLER FREQUENCY SHIFT | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOmmatidia Lidar S L has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Ethan Jakob Slaughter has the most, with 1 of Ommatidia Lidar S L's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
