Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 6 (60%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
| No statute on record | 2 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLINO, DAVID P | 2 | 71.2% | +12.1% |
| JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE | 1 | 80.0% | +28.3% |
| HILGENDORF, DALE W | 1 | 84.5% | +21.6% |
| SOOD, ANSHUL | 1 | 82.8% | +12.4% |
| WEBER, TAMARA L | 1 | 87.1% | +12.1% |
| MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 1 | 45.2% | +33.9% |
| ROBERT, DANIEL M | 1 | 79.1% | +8.8% |
| ELARABI, TAREK A | 1 | 69.3% | +35.7% |
| FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 1 | 55.1% | +25.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18798704 | OFFBOARD INFRASTRUCTURE TO AUGMENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS | SOOD, ANSHUL | 38d overdue |
| 18646649 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSING A LANE CHANGE MANEUVER OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WEBER, TAMARA L | 20d |
| 18945382 | Ambiguous Lane Detection Event Miner | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 21d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808067 | DETECTING ROAD AND WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR VEHICLE DRIVING | MERLINO, DAVID P | 161d overdue |
| 18798704 | OFFBOARD INFRASTRUCTURE TO AUGMENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS | SOOD, ANSHUL | 38d overdue |
| 18202104 | On-Vehicle Driving Behavior Modelling | MERLINO, DAVID P | 11d overdue |
| 18630908 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF HIGH BEAM OPERATION | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 9d |
| 18646649 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSING A LANE CHANGE MANEUVER OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WEBER, TAMARA L | 20d |
| 18945382 | Ambiguous Lane Detection Event Miner | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 21d |
| 18234668 | OPERATING A VEHICLE IN RESPONSE TO DETECTING A FAULTY SENSOR USING CALIBRATION PARAMETERS OF THE SENSOR | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 34d |
| 18979408 | SURROUNDING TRAFFIC SPEED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE | 35d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 3 |
| 3662 | 2 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18979408 | SURROUNDING TRAFFIC SPEED MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | JACKSON, DANIELLE MARIE | 3657 | Other | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18945382 | Ambiguous Lane Detection Event Miner | HILGENDORF, DALE W | 3662 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18808067 | DETECTING ROAD AND WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR VEHICLE DRIVING | MERLINO, DAVID P | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 161d overdue | Pending | Aug 18, 2024 |
| 18798704 | OFFBOARD INFRASTRUCTURE TO AUGMENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS | SOOD, ANSHUL | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18646649 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSING A LANE CHANGE MANEUVER OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WEBER, TAMARA L | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18630908 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF HIGH BEAM OPERATION | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 3663 | Other | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18440826 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TAMPER DETECTION OF A VEHICLE SYSTEM | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18243575 | DETERMINING ACCEPTABLE RESPONSES FOR NAVIGATING A VEHICLE THAT ACCOUNTS FOR EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF THE VEHICLE | ELARABI, TAREK A | 3661 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18234668 | OPERATING A VEHICLE IN RESPONSE TO DETECTING A FAULTY SENSOR USING CALIBRATION PARAMETERS OF THE SENSOR | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
| 18202104 | On-Vehicle Driving Behavior Modelling | MERLINO, DAVID P | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
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