Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 2 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ouster Inc. currently has 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 6 distinct examiners. This distribution means that every active matter in the portfolio is being reviewed by a different individual, requiring the company to manage multiple examination styles.
The portfolio is active within 2 distinct art units. This concentration suggests that while there are many examiners, they are grouped within a small number of technical departments. HELLNER, MARK is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across the various examiners.
The use of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions may lead to some technical consistency in the examination process. Practitioners should monitor the trends within these two specific units to anticipate potential challenges. Coordinating the 6 distinct examiners is essential to ensure that the prosecution of one application remains consistent with the others in the same art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (17%) |
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 | 1 | 90.4% | +8.6% |
| AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 1 | — | — |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 62.9% | +34.6% |
| RICHTER, KARA | 1 | — | — |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.3% | +16.9% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 52.5% | +11.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18600612 | SUBFRAMES AND PHASE SHIFTING FOR LIDAR ACQUISITION | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | — |
| 18102940 | OVERLAPPING SUB-RANGES WITH POWER STEPPING | RICHTER, KARA | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18357663 | RF DATA LINK FOR A DEVICE WITH A ROTATING COMPONENT | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 67d overdue |
| 18150961 | Logic For Controlling Histogramming Of Measurements Of Lidar Sensors | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 8d |
| 18094049 | Lidar Clocking Schemes For Power Management | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 4 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18917222 | OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING DISTANCE INFORMATION WITHIN A FIELD | HELLNER, MARK | — | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18600612 | SUBFRAMES AND PHASE SHIFTING FOR LIDAR ACQUISITION | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18357663 | RF DATA LINK FOR A DEVICE WITH A ROTATING COMPONENT | RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 3646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18102940 | OVERLAPPING SUB-RANGES WITH POWER STEPPING | RICHTER, KARA | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
| 18094049 | Lidar Clocking Schemes For Power Management | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
| 18150961 | Logic For Controlling Histogramming Of Measurements Of Lidar Sensors | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §102 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jan 06, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialOuster Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 6 examiners.
Mark Hellner has the most, with 1 of Ouster Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
