Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 2 clients • 7 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 35 patents granted in the last 365 days
PERKINS COIE LLP - TuSimple focuses on Computing & Software and has 6 pending office actions. Its career application record includes 772 applications, providing historical context for the current docket.
The resolved allowance rate is 76.43%, and the average office actions per allowance is 2.9. The rate measures outcomes among resolved applications, while the action average reflects examination activity associated with allowances. Practitioners can use these indicators to consider current response demands alongside the firm’s recorded prosecution approach for the client’s computing and software matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 | 1 (14%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (14%) |
| §103 only | 2 (29%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 1 | 46.0% | +33.5% |
| AYAD, MARIA S | 1 | 35.2% | +15.8% |
| ALLISON, ANDRAE S | 1 | 84.1% | -15.5% |
| WALLACE, DONALD JOSEPH | 1 | 77.3% | +15.3% |
| MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 1 | 54.2% | +24.4% |
| WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 1 | 59.0% | +31.5% |
| TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 1 | 46.2% | +53.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18596354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE POSITION AND VELOCITY ESTIMATION BASED ON CAMERA AND LIDAR DATA | ALLISON, ANDRAE S | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517517 | MICROPHONE ARRAYS TO OPTIMIZE THE ACOUSTIC PERCEPTION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | WALLACE, DONALD JOSEPH | 112d overdue |
| 17818338 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 71d |
| 18773299 | FAULT INJECTION TOOL FOR SAFETY DRIVER TRAINING | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | — |
| 18048011 | CURB DETECTION BY ANALYSIS OF REFLECTION IMAGES | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18517517 | MICROPHONE ARRAYS TO OPTIMIZE THE ACOUSTIC PERCEPTION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | WALLACE, DONALD JOSEPH | 112d overdue |
| 17648291 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION TEST | TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 15d |
| 17818338 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 71d |
| 18773299 | FAULT INJECTION TOOL FOR SAFETY DRIVER TRAINING | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | — |
| 18662833 | MULTI-NODE COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | AYAD, MARIA S | — |
| 18048011 | CURB DETECTION BY ANALYSIS OF REFLECTION IMAGES | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| TUSIMPLE, INC. | 6 |
| BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| 2673 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773299 | FAULT INJECTION TOOL FOR SAFETY DRIVER TRAINING | TuSimple, Inc. | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 3715 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18662833 | MULTI-NODE COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | TuSimple, Inc. | AYAD, MARIA S | 2172 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18596354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE POSITION AND VELOCITY ESTIMATION BASED ON CAMERA AND LIDAR DATA | TuSimple, Inc. | ALLISON, ANDRAE S | 2673 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18517517 | MICROPHONE ARRAYS TO OPTIMIZE THE ACOUSTIC PERCEPTION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | TuSimple, Inc. | WALLACE, DONALD JOSEPH | 3665 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Nov 22, 2023 |
| 18048011 | CURB DETECTION BY ANALYSIS OF REFLECTION IMAGES | TuSimple, Inc. | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 3661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
| 17818338 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H. | 2187 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
| 17648291 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION TEST | TuSimple, Inc. | TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 2189 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jan 18, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial76.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Perkins Coie LLP - Tusimple were allowed, across 772 applications in USPTO records.
2.90 office actions per allowed application on average.
7 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 7 examiners in 7 art units.
