Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
15 pending office actions • 2 clients • 14 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 15 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 66 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dority & Manning, P.A. and has 16 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 28426 career applications. The profile records current prosecution activity across a technology area that may include transportation systems, mechanical arrangements, and e-commerce functionality. Its application history supplies broader context for the active docket.
The resolved allowance rate is 88.25%, with an average of 3.38 office actions per allowance. These measures describe the available historical record and the examination activity associated with resolved allowances. Practitioners can use them alongside the pending-action figure to review docket needs and historical prosecution results, while recognizing that they do not resolve the merits of a particular pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (13%) |
| §103 only | 6 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (7%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (27%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (7%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 2 | 85.5% | +15.6% |
| RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 1 | 81.5% | +14.9% |
| CASS, JEAN PAUL | 1 | 72.9% | +25.6% |
| LE, TIEN MINH | 1 | 72.3% | +16.6% |
| REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | 1 | 91.0% | +9.4% |
| MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 1 | 82.3% | +17.3% |
| CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 1 | 83.1% | +17.7% |
| TROOST, AARON L | 1 | 74.9% | +10.5% |
| NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 1 | 88.9% | +22.2% |
| RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 1 | 87.2% | +10.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17723340 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION IN PHASE ENCODED DOPPLER LIDAR | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 4d overdue |
| 19303898 | Systems and Methods for Pareto Domination-Based Learning | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | — |
| 18600055 | LIDAR Odometry for Localization | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | — |
| 18538717 | LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEM | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19229802 | Systems and Methods for Generating Basis Paths for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Control | REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | — |
| 19227012 | Adaptive Vehicle Motion Control System | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
| 19028221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TRACK USING SENSOR DATA | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | — |
| 18240771 | Systems and Methods for Generating Motion Forecast Data for a Plurality of Actors with Respect to an Autonomous Vehicle | FLYNN, ABBY J | — |
| 18458376 | Systems and Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Validation | BORISSOV, IGOR N | — |
| 17592265 | LIDAR SYSTEM | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17723340 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION IN PHASE ENCODED DOPPLER LIDAR | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 4d overdue |
| 19303898 | Systems and Methods for Pareto Domination-Based Learning | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | — |
| 19299070 | LIDAR SYSTEM | CASS, JEAN PAUL | — |
| 19297891 | Lane Change Architecture for Autonomous Vehicles | LE, TIEN MINH | — |
| 19227012 | Adaptive Vehicle Motion Control System | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | — |
| 19028221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TRACK USING SENSOR DATA | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | — |
| 18763626 | Systems and Methods for Managing Space at a Location for Receiving Assets | TROOST, AARON L | — |
| 18600055 | LIDAR Odometry for Localization | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Aurora Operations | 14 |
| Aurora Operations, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 5 |
| 3663 | 3 |
| 3666 | 2 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19303898 | Systems and Methods for Pareto Domination-Based Learning | Aurora Operations, Inc. | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2025 |
| 19299070 | LIDAR SYSTEM | Aurora Operations, Inc. | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19297891 | Lane Change Architecture for Autonomous Vehicles | Aurora Operations, Inc. | LE, TIEN MINH | 3656 | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19229802 | Systems and Methods for Generating Basis Paths for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Control | Aurora Operations, Inc. | REDHEAD JR., ASHLEY L | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2025 |
| 19227012 | Adaptive Vehicle Motion Control System | Aurora Operations, Inc. | MCPHERSON, JAMES M | 3663 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 03, 2025 |
| 19028221 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TRACK USING SENSOR DATA | Aurora Operations, Inc. | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 3648 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 18763626 | Systems and Methods for Managing Space at a Location for Receiving Assets | Aurora Operations, Inc. | TROOST, AARON L | 3666 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18600055 | LIDAR Odometry for Localization | Aurora Operations, Inc. | NAPIER, JAMES WILBURN | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18538717 | LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEM | Aurora Operations, Inc. | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18240771 | Systems and Methods for Generating Motion Forecast Data for a Plurality of Actors with Respect to an Autonomous Vehicle | Aurora Operations, Inc. | FLYNN, ABBY J | 3663 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 31, 2023 |
| 18458376 | Systems and Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Validation | Aurora Operations, Inc. | BORISSOV, IGOR N | 3685 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 18358443 | End-To-End Interpretable Motion Planner for Autonomous Vehicles | Aurora Operations, Inc. | UNDERWOOD, BAKARI | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 17855898 | HIGH RESOLUTION FREQUENCY MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE LIDAR WITH SOLID-STATE BEAM STEERING | Aurora Operations, Inc. | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2022 |
| 17723340 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION IN PHASE ENCODED DOPPLER LIDAR | Aurora Operations, Inc. | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2022 |
| 17592265 | LIDAR SYSTEM | Aurora Operations, Inc. | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial88.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by Dority & Manning, P.A. And were allowed, across 28,426 applications in USPTO records.
3.38 office actions per allowed application on average.
15 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 14 examiners in 8 art units.
