Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
PlusAI Inc. is managing 9 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 7 distinct art units, indicating a broad technical range within the transportation field. The portfolio involves 9 distinct examiners, meaning every pending action is being handled by a different individual. This distribution of 9 pending actions across the examiners suggests that the company faces a unique set of perspectives for every active application.
KIMBERLY LOVEL WILSON is the busiest examiner, though they are responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that the company's prosecution efforts are spread across many different examiners and 7 art units. Practitioners must be prepared for a variety of examination styles and technical standards across the 9 pending matters. The ratio of art units to pending actions indicates that the company's technology is being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (12%) |
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (38%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL | 1 | 71.0% | +17.1% |
| WILBURN, MOLLY K | 1 | 90.2% | +8.9% |
| BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 1 | 88.2% | +10.9% |
| MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 1 | 60.4% | +16.0% |
| MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 1 | 45.3% | +35.7% |
| MALKOWSKI, KENNETH J | 1 | 75.1% | +18.7% |
| ROBERT, DANIEL M | 1 | 78.6% | +10.7% |
| ELARABI, TAREK A | 1 | 69.5% | +36.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666592 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SAFETY SUPPORT WITH UNMANNED VEHICLES | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440826 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TAMPER DETECTION OF A VEHICLE SYSTEM | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 15d overdue |
| 18243575 | DETERMINING ACCEPTABLE RESPONSES FOR NAVIGATING A VEHICLE THAT ACCOUNTS FOR EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF THE VEHICLE | ELARABI, TAREK A | 40d |
| 18989547 | DETECTION OF ON-ROAD OBJECT POSITION USING MARKERS | WILBURN, MOLLY K | — |
| 18590925 | Generic Obstacle Detection in Drivable Area | MALKOWSKI, KENNETH J | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18440826 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TAMPER DETECTION OF A VEHICLE SYSTEM | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 15d overdue |
| 18630908 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF HIGH BEAM OPERATION | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 9d |
| 18243575 | DETERMINING ACCEPTABLE RESPONSES FOR NAVIGATING A VEHICLE THAT ACCOUNTS FOR EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF THE VEHICLE | ELARABI, TAREK A | 40d |
| 19183316 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED SCENARIO DISCOVERY TO TRAIN A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR A DRIVING SYSTEM | WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL | — |
| 18666592 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SAFETY SUPPORT WITH UNMANNED VEHICLES | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | — |
| 18637195 | SCENARIO-BASED MOTION PLANNING AND CONTROL FOR COASTING | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | — |
| 18590925 | Generic Obstacle Detection in Drivable Area | MALKOWSKI, KENNETH J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2165 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183316 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE BASED SCENARIO DISCOVERY TO TRAIN A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR A DRIVING SYSTEM | WILSON, KIMBERLY LOVEL | 2165 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18989547 | DETECTION OF ON-ROAD OBJECT POSITION USING MARKERS | WILBURN, MOLLY K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18666592 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SAFETY SUPPORT WITH UNMANNED VEHICLES | BUTLER, RODNEY ALLEN | 3666 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18637195 | SCENARIO-BASED MOTION PLANNING AND CONTROL FOR COASTING | MUSTAFA, IMRAN K | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18630908 | AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF HIGH BEAM OPERATION | MCCULLERS, AARON KYLE | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Apr 09, 2024 |
| 18590925 | Generic Obstacle Detection in Drivable Area | MALKOWSKI, KENNETH J | 3667 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18440826 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TAMPER DETECTION OF A VEHICLE SYSTEM | ROBERT, DANIEL M | 3665 | §103§112 | 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§112 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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