Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
18 pending office actions • 2 clients • 18 examiners • 11 art units • 0 of 18 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 71 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 only | 3 (17%) |
| §103 only | 9 (50%) |
| §102 only | 3 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (11%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (6%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QI, ZHENGQING J | 1 | 68.8% | +13.8% |
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 1 | 75.6% | +2.4% |
| INGRAM, THOMAS P | 1 | 87.4% | +6.1% |
| RAMESH, KRISHNAN | 1 | 80.4% | +18.0% |
| TRIVEDI, ATUL | 1 | 91.1% | +8.5% |
| TANG, BRYANT | 1 | 89.2% | -1.1% |
| YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 1 | 79.6% | +22.9% |
| ALAM, NAEEM TASLIM | 1 | 84.2% | +10.7% |
| LEE, TYLER J | 1 | 92.0% | +6.8% |
| MERLINO, DAVID P | 1 | 71.2% | +12.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18925624 | Learned Validation Metric for Evaluating Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning Performance | TANG, BRYANT | 22d overdue |
| 18812632 | Planar-Beam, Light Detection and Ranging System | LEE, TYLER J | 19d overdue |
| 18990620 | Autonomous Vehicles Featuring Machine-Learned Yield Model | RAMESH, KRISHNAN | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18825869 | Systems and Methods for Generating Physically Realistic Trajectories | ALAM, NAEEM TASLIM | 22d overdue |
| 18990684 | Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks | INGRAM, THOMAS P | 28d |
| 19007237 | Systems and Methods to Obtain Feedback in Response to Autonomous Vehicle Failure Events | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212150 | FOCAL PLANE ARRAY SYSTEM FOR LIDAR | QI, ZHENGQING J | 35d overdue |
| 18825869 | Systems and Methods for Generating Physically Realistic Trajectories | ALAM, NAEEM TASLIM | 22d overdue |
| 18890881 | Systems and Methods for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Asynchronous Multi-View Cameras | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 8d |
| 18798488 | Systems and Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Validation | MERLINO, DAVID P | 8d |
| 18990620 | Autonomous Vehicles Featuring Machine-Learned Yield Model | RAMESH, KRISHNAN | 40d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Aurora Operations | 17 |
| OURS Technology Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 3 |
| 3663 | 3 |
| 3668 | 2 |
| 3665 | 2 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212150 | FOCAL PLANE ARRAY SYSTEM FOR LIDAR | Ours Technology Inc. | QI, ZHENGQING J | 3645 | §112 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19007237 | Systems and Methods to Obtain Feedback in Response to Autonomous Vehicle Failure Events | Aurora Operations, Inc. | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18990684 | Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks | Aurora Operations, Inc. | INGRAM, THOMAS P | 3668 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18990620 | Autonomous Vehicles Featuring Machine-Learned Yield Model | Aurora Operations, Inc. | RAMESH, KRISHNAN | 3663 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18984133 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED VELOCITY RESOLUTION AND SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO IN OPTICAL PHASE-ENCODED RANGE DETECTION | Aurora Operations, Inc. | TRIVEDI, ATUL | 3661 | Other | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18925624 | Learned Validation Metric for Evaluating Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning Performance | Aurora Operations, Inc. | TANG, BRYANT | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18890881 | Systems and Methods for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Asynchronous Multi-View Cameras | Aurora Operations, Inc. | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 3665 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18825869 | Systems and Methods for Generating Physically Realistic Trajectories | Aurora Operations, Inc. | ALAM, NAEEM TASLIM | 3668 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18812632 | Planar-Beam, Light Detection and Ranging System | Aurora Operations, Inc. | LEE, TYLER J | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18798488 | Systems and Methods for Autonomous Vehicle Validation | Aurora Operations, Inc. | MERLINO, DAVID P | 3665 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18752228 | Fault-Tolerant Control of an Autonomous Vehicle with Multiple Control Lanes | Aurora Operations, Inc. | KERRIGAN, MICHAEL V | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 18658570 | Manufacturing Process for Semiconductor Optical Device for LIDAR Sensor System | Aurora Operations, Inc. | LAVARIAS, ARNEL C | 2872 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18587208 | LIDAR SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | Aurora Operations, Inc. | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | 49d overdue | Pending | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18585943 | Training a Motion Planning System for an Autonomous Vehicle | Aurora Operations, Inc. | VELASQUEZ VANEGAS, RAFAEL | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 18465561 | LIDAR SENSOR SYSTEM | Aurora Operations, Inc. | GAGNON, GRANT A | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Sep 12, 2023 |
| 18358443 | End-To-End Interpretable Motion Planner for Autonomous Vehicles | Aurora Operations, Inc. | UNDERWOOD, BAKARI | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18191621 | Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Module for a LIDAR System | Aurora Operations, Inc. | NOEL, JEMPSON | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 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 |
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