Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Velodyne Lidar USA Inc. currently has 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, which means each active application is being handled by a different official. Despite this examiner diversity, the portfolio is concentrated within only 2 distinct art units. This suggests that while the individual reviewers vary, the technical focus of the company's lidar innovations is relatively narrow.
BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 5 pending office actions and 5 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed, with each examiner responsible for exactly one case. The 1 busiest examiner pending action shows that no single examiner has an outsized impact on the company's current prosecution efforts. This requires the company to adapt to five different examination styles simultaneously.
The fact that the company's 5 pending office actions are housed in just 2 distinct art units allows for some level of strategic consistency. Practitioners can monitor trends within these two units to better predict examiner behavior. However, the need to manage 5 distinct examiners still presents a coordination challenge. This profile indicates a focused technical strategy within the transportation sector, even as the portfolio interacts with multiple office officials.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 1 | 77.3% | +16.9% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 1 | 80.0% | +12.6% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 52.5% | +11.7% |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 79.2% | +12.2% |
| RICHTER, KARA | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18686262 | HIGH RESOLUTION COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROL OF LASER POWER IN A LIDAR DEVICE | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 46d |
| 18767493 | Systems And Methods For A Configurable Sensor System | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| 18421562 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIDAR SCAN RATE CONTROL | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18115754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROL OF LASER POWER IN A LIDAR DEVICE | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 46d |
| 18767493 | Systems And Methods For A Configurable Sensor System | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — |
| 18686262 | HIGH RESOLUTION COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| 18421562 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIDAR SCAN RATE CONTROL | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 4 |
| 2828 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18767493 | Systems And Methods For A Configurable Sensor System | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18686262 | HIGH RESOLUTION COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18421562 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIDAR SCAN RATE CONTROL | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 18115754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROL OF LASER POWER IN A LIDAR DEVICE | MENEFEE, JAMES A | 2828 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 46d | Pending | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 17470612 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LONG RANGE, HIGH RESOLUTION LIDAR | RICHTER, KARA | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialVelodyne Lidar USA Inc. has 5 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 5 examiners.
Hovhannes Baghdasaryan has the most, with 1 of Velodyne Lidar USA Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
