Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ouster Inc. is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed among distinct examiners, meaning that every active application is being reviewed by a different individual. The prosecution is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the technical subject matter is grouped into specific administrative categories.
AHMAD, KHALIL ALI is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 5 pending office actions to address, the company must navigate the specific standards of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area while responding to the requirements of the various officials. The 2 distinct art units involved indicate a multi-faceted review process, where 1 busiest examiner pending action is part of the larger docket. This distribution of work across multiple examiners within limited art units necessitates a coordinated legal approach.
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 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | 1 | — | — |
| RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL | 1 | 67.7% | +25.4% |
| RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +32.9% |
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 54.5% | +12.7% |
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 MARIE | — |
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 # | 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 |
| 18102940 | OVERLAPPING SUB-RANGES WITH POWER STEPPING | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | — |
| 18094049 | Lidar Clocking Schemes For Power Management | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18600612 | SUBFRAMES AND PHASE SHIFTING FOR LIDAR ACQUISITION | AHMAD, KHALIL ALI | — | §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 MARIE | 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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