Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
12 pending office actions • 2 clients • 12 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
PERKINS COIE LLP - TuSimple manages 772 career applications in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The firm has a resolved allowance rate of 76.59 percent. Prosecution requires an average of 2.88 office actions per allowance. There are 8 pending office actions currently.
The 76.59 percent allowance rate is a key performance indicator for this client. The 2.88 office actions per allowance provide a measure of the effort required to obtain an allowance. With 772 career applications, the firm has a significant track record in this specific technology area. These figures allow for a data-driven assessment of the prosecution landscape.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 (8%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (8%) |
| §103 only | 4 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (8%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (42%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, PHILIP CHARLES | 1 | 75.0% | +0.0% |
| PECHE, JORGE O | 1 | 80.6% | +16.8% |
| YANG, WEI WEN | 1 | 81.9% | +11.5% |
| ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 1 | 45.6% | +33.7% |
| FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 1 | 57.1% | +22.4% |
| AYAD, MARIA S | 1 | 34.9% | +16.2% |
| BREENE, JOHN E | 1 | 52.0% | -5.2% |
| WALLACE, DONALD JOSEPH | 1 | 76.9% | +16.0% |
| JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | 1 | 81.9% | +22.8% |
| MILLER, PRESTON JAY | 1 | 54.2% | +24.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891113 | PERCEPTION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | YANG, WEI WEN | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 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 |
| 18664712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING BASED ON BOUNDED TRACKING | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 16d |
| 18933798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING TIRE HEALTH | PECHE, JORGE O | 42d |
| 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 | — |
| 18298411 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | — |
| 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 8 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 |
| 18664712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING BASED ON BOUNDED TRACKING | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 16d |
| 18933798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING TIRE HEALTH | PECHE, JORGE O | 42d |
| 18891113 | PERCEPTION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | YANG, WEI WEN | — |
| 18773299 | FAULT INJECTION TOOL FOR SAFETY DRIVER TRAINING | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | — |
| 18662833 | MULTI-NODE COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | AYAD, MARIA S | — |
| 18298411 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | — |
| 18048011 | CURB DETECTION BY ANALYSIS OF REFLECTION IMAGES | MILLER, PRESTON JAY | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| TUSIMPLE, INC. | 10 |
| BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 2172 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3661 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| 2189 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SENSOR MOUNTING SYSTEM | TuSimple, Inc. | ADAMS, PHILIP CHARLES | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 | |
| 18933798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING TIRE HEALTH | TuSimple, Inc. | PECHE, JORGE O | 3656 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18891113 | PERCEPTION SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | TuSimple, Inc. | YANG, WEI WEN | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 | |
| 18773299 | FAULT INJECTION TOOL FOR SAFETY DRIVER TRAINING | TuSimple, Inc. | ZAMAN, SADARUZ | 3715 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18664712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING BASED ON BOUNDED TRACKING | TuSimple, Inc. | FEES, CHRISTOPHER GEORGE | 3662 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 16d | Pending | May 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 |
| 18444113 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR VIBRATION ISOLATION | TuSimple, Inc. | BREENE, JOHN E | 2855 | §112 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Feb 16, 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 |
| 18298411 | METHOD, COMPUTING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | BEIJING TUSEN ZHITU TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | JOHNSON, CEDRIC D | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 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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