Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Velodyne Lidar USA Inc. currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that each pending case is being handled by a different individual at the USPTO, which may require distinct communication strategies for each application. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units.
BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 5 distinct examiners assigned to the 5 pending actions, the workload is distributed evenly across the current examining staff. This presence in 2 distinct art units suggests the portfolio is concentrated in specific technical groups. Practitioners should prepare for varied examiner behavior even when operating within these 2 distinct art units. The lack of examiner overlap across the 5 pending actions means that successful arguments in 1 case may not necessarily influence the other pending matters.
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 | 77.6% | +16.8% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 1 | 79.7% | +12.6% |
| CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 1 | 54.5% | +12.7% |
| MENEFEE, JAMES A | 1 | 78.9% | +12.1% |
| RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 1 | 54.5% | +32.9% |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17470612 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LONG RANGE, HIGH RESOLUTION LIDAR | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 99d overdue |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2828 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18767493 | Systems And Methods For A Configurable Sensor System | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 09, 2024 |
| 18686262 | HIGH RESOLUTION COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | THATCHER, CLINT A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18421562 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIDAR SCAN RATE CONTROL | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | — | §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 MARIE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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