Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Tesla Inc.

41 pending office actions • 35 art units • 40 examiners • 0 of 41 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 70 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

41
Total Pending OAs
30
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 39 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

16
Overdue
4
Due this week
10
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
5
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 39 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (16)Due ≤ 7 days (4)Due ≤ 30 days (10)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (5)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
38
Medium (93%)
2
Easy (5%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only34 (83%)
§102 only4 (10%)
§112 only2 (5%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

10
Life Sciences
24% of docket
6
Information Tech
15% of docket
2
Communications
5% of docket
8
Semiconductors
20% of docket
15
Mechanical / Eng
37% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

410 h
Manual time on pending OAs
82 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
144 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LUGO, CARLOS 2 74.7% +14.0%
HOLLY, LEE A 1 75.0% +5.7%
TRINH, MINH N 1 85.7% +10.2%
REDA, MATTHEW J 1 55.2% +28.9%
BUKOWSKI, KENNETH 1 67.7% +5.9%
ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN 1 81.0% +20.8%
VAN, QUANG T 1 73.9% +8.3%
FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 1 55.1% +25.5%
UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 1 77.8% +30.5%
GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 1 71.5% +11.4%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19185709 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A DRY ELECTRODE TRINH, MINH N 36d
18804891 FAST FILL VALVE FOR CLOSED LOOP FLUID SYSTEM ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN 76d

Interview Candidates (8)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18941837 AUTONOMOUS AND USER CONTROLLED VEHICLE SUMMON TO A TARGET REDA, MATTHEW J 26d overdue
18746002 CLIP SEARCH WITH MULTIMODAL QUERIES UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 4d overdue
18631637 DOOR ASSEMBLY LUGO, CARLOS 14d
18722351 INDUCTIVE SENSING FOR VEHICLE INTERFACES FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 20d
19185709 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A DRY ELECTRODE TRINH, MINH N 36d
18717403 MOTOR AND GEARBOX FLUID FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 41d
18804891 FAST FILL VALVE FOR CLOSED LOOP FLUID SYSTEM ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN 76d
18980830 ANGLE-DETECTING DOOR HANDLE ASSEMBLY LUGO, CARLOS 86d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3675 3
3665 2
2841 2
2834 2
1728 2
3726 1
3729 1
2621 1
3753 1
3761 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19227384 AUTOMATED EXTERIOR VEHICLE PART ASSEMBLY USING GLOBAL DATUM HOLLY, LEE A 3726 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 03, 2025
19185709 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A DRY ELECTRODE TRINH, MINH N 3729 §103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Apr 22, 2025
18980830 ANGLE-DETECTING DOOR HANDLE ASSEMBLY LUGO, CARLOS 3675 §112 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Dec 13, 2024
18941837 AUTONOMOUS AND USER CONTROLLED VEHICLE SUMMON TO A TARGET REDA, MATTHEW J 3665 Other Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2024
18900399 CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH PULLBACK BUKOWSKI, KENNETH 2621 §102 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2024
18804891 FAST FILL VALVE FOR CLOSED LOOP FLUID SYSTEM ARNETT, NICOLAS ALLEN 3753 §103 Non-Final OA 76d Pending Aug 14, 2024
18786226 INDUCTION HEATER FOR CALENDAR ROLLER VAN, QUANG T 3761 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2024
18722351 INDUCTIVE SENSING FOR VEHICLE INTERFACES FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE 3662 §103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18746002 CLIP SEARCH WITH MULTIMODAL QUERIES UDDIN, MOHAMMED R 2161 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Jun 17, 2024
18717403 MOTOR AND GEARBOX FLUID FORMULATIONS AND USES THEREOF GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN 1771 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jun 06, 2024
18671112 FIBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURE GUGLIOTTA, NICOLE T 1781 §103 Non-Final OA Pending May 22, 2024
18703911 COOLED BUSBAR FOR ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION MAYO III, WILLIAM H 2841 §103 Non-Final OA 26d overdue Pending Apr 23, 2024
18701797 PSEUDONYMOUS LOGGING AND DIRECTIVES TAN, OLIVER E 3669 §103 Final Rejection 72d Pending Apr 16, 2024
18701579 CONDITIONAL VEHICLE DATA ACCESS GRANTING TO THIRD PARTIES BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION OF RELATIVE POSITION BETWEEN VEHICLE AND THIRD PARTIES THOMPSON, JOSEPH LEIGH 3665 §103 Final Rejection 10d overdue Pending Apr 15, 2024
18701180 ISOLATED ELECTRIC COUPLER SECK, AHMED F 2834 §102 Non-Final OA 6d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18631637 DOOR ASSEMBLY LUGO, CARLOS 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Apr 10, 2024
18699562 INTRUSION PROTECTED USER INTERFACE AND FUNCTIONALITY FOR VEHICLE USING EMBEDDED CONTROLLER KIM, ANDREW SANG 3668 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Apr 08, 2024
18692265 ENCRYPTED VEHICLE DATA ACCESS PARTHASARATHY, PRAMILA 2409 §102 Final Rejection 23d Pending Mar 14, 2024
18605202 BATTERY SYSTEMS BASED ON LITHIUM DIFLUOROPHOSPHATE ESSEX, STEPHAN J 1727 §102 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Mar 14, 2024
18683636 GLOBALS BLOCKS IN REPLICATED BLOCK ARRAYS LEE, CHUN KUAN 2181 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18441347 MOLDED/BACK-INJECTED TRIM PANELS PLESZCZYNSKA, JOANNA 1783 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18683592 COMMUNICATION LATENCY MITIGATION FOR ON-CHIP NETWORKS SHAH, MEHULKUMAR J 2459 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Feb 14, 2024
18683335 ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES WITH INTERPOSER ASSEMBLY ZHU, SHENG-BAI 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2024
18427600 VEHICLE WITH EXOSKELETON WEISBERG, AMY REGINA 3612 §112 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Jan 30, 2024
18292171 TAPERED THREAD-FORMING FASTENERS PATEL, VISHAL A 3675 §103 Non-Final OA 53d Pending Jan 25, 2024
18544323 PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOFING TILE BASE HIJAZ, OMAR F 3635 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18540518 PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOF TILE CONNECTION CONFIGURATION KANG, TAE-SIK 1728 §103 Non-Final OA 71d Pending Dec 14, 2023
18560325 ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES WITH THERMAL INTERFACE STRUCTURE SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN 2892 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Nov 10, 2023
18498432 INVERTER CRAWFORD EASON, LATANYA N 2813 §103 Non-Final OA 266d overdue Pending Oct 31, 2023
18549307 COOLED SYSTEM-ON-WAFER WITH MEANS FOR REDUCING THE EFFECTS OF ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE AND/OR ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE NGUYEN, HAI L 2842 §103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2023
18217409 ENHANCED VISION PROCESSING AND SENSOR SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BEKELE, MEKONEN T 2699 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Jun 30, 2023
18321550 VISION-BASED SYSTEM WITH THRESHOLDING FOR OBJECT DETECTION DANG, HUNG Q 2484 §103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending May 22, 2023
18320776 GENERATING TRAINING DATA FOR VISION SYSTEMS DETECTING MOVING OBJECTS ARELLANO, PAUL WOODWARD 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending May 19, 2023
18245848 SINTERED CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL BRICKS AND METHODS THEREOF DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Mar 17, 2023
18026432 ENERGY STORAGE CELL FRASER, STEWART A 1724 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Mar 15, 2023
18044763 BATTERY CELL WITH A TABLESS ELECTRODE SRIPATHI, ANKITH REDDY 1728 §103 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Mar 09, 2023
18160965 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH STACKED TERMINALS BURTNER, DOUGLAS R 2841 §103 Final Rejection 30d overdue Pending Jan 27, 2023
18097087 INTERACTIVE AIR VENT CONTROL INTERFACE KLICOS, NICHOLAS GEORGE 2118 §103 Final Rejection 25d overdue Pending Jan 13, 2023
17923204 PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR WITH WRAPPING ANDREWS, MICHAEL 2834 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2022
17812575 CASTING ALUMINUM ALLOYS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE APPLICATIONS MORILLO, JANELL COMBS 1733 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Jul 14, 2022
16184892 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES HAVING IMPROVED PERFORMANCE BARROW, AMANDA J 1729 §103 Final Rejection 22d overdue Pending Nov 08, 2018

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