Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIMA, FABIO S | 1 | 77.2% | +14.2% |
| SOHN, SEUNG C | 1 | 87.2% | +8.9% |
| HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| DICKERSON, CHAD S | 1 | 62.9% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000167 | LASER OUTPUT ARRAY, RECEPTION OPTICS, AND LIDAR DEVICE USING SAME | SOHN, SEUNG C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18659598 | LIDAR DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19248300 | MULTI-CHANNEL LIDAR SENSOR MODULE | LIMA, FABIO S | — |
| 18263111 | METHOD FOR GENERATING INTENSITY INFORMATION HAVING EXTENDED EXPRESSION RANGE BY REFLECTING GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC OF OBJECT, AND LIDAR APPARATUS PERFORMING SAME METHOD | DICKERSON, CHAD S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| 2683 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19248300 | MULTI-CHANNEL LIDAR SENSOR MODULE | LIMA, FABIO S | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19000167 | LASER OUTPUT ARRAY, RECEPTION OPTICS, AND LIDAR DEVICE USING SAME | SOHN, SEUNG C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18659598 | LIDAR DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18263111 | METHOD FOR GENERATING INTENSITY INFORMATION HAVING EXTENDED EXPRESSION RANGE BY REFLECTING GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC OF OBJECT, AND LIDAR APPARATUS PERFORMING SAME METHOD | DICKERSON, CHAD S | 2683 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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