Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
14 pending office actions • 2 clients • 13 examiners • 8 art units • 0 of 14 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 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. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 10 (71%) |
| §102 only | 3 (21%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 2 | — | — |
| KIM, SANG K | 1 | 81.2% | +10.3% |
| KRETZER, CASEY L | 1 | 87.0% | +12.2% |
| JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 1 | 83.2% | +17.3% |
| UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL | 1 | 49.4% | +21.8% |
| DIAO, M BAYE | 1 | 87.5% | +3.2% |
| HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 1 | 50.8% | +44.5% |
| GRANT, ROBERT J | 1 | 76.3% | +17.4% |
| GUTMAN, HILARY L | 1 | 71.9% | +11.8% |
| ZHOU, ZIXUAN | 1 | 76.8% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCALIZING ONE OR MORE OBJECTS WITHIN AN ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 66d overdue |
| 18588183 | VEHICLE HOOK CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REEL DISENGAGEMENT AND VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | 35d overdue |
| 18312679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATED ENERGY REPLENISHMENT SUMMONING THROUGH PILE-STATION INTEGRATION | DIAO, M BAYE | 15d overdue |
| 18411370 | TRAFFIC LIGHT PERCEPTION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | KRETZER, CASEY L | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18191103 | TRUNK FLOOR MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 105d overdue |
| 18404090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCALIZING ONE OR MORE OBJECTS WITHIN AN ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 66d overdue |
| 18588183 | VEHICLE HOOK CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REEL DISENGAGEMENT AND VEHICLE | KIM, SANG K | 35d overdue |
| 18306334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING IN PARKING VEHICLE IN PARKING POSITION | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 25d overdue |
| 18297043 | BATTERY SWAP CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM, MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND BATTERY CHARGING AND SWAP STATION | GRANT, ROBERT J | 15d overdue |
| 18411370 | TRAFFIC LIGHT PERCEPTION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | KRETZER, CASEY L | 26d |
| 18532253 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING VEHICLE DRIVING TRAJECTORY, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND VEHICLE | UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL | 34d |
| 18184722 | SAFETY PROTECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BATTERY CHARGING AND SWAP STATION, MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND BATTERY CHARGING AND SWAP STATION | ZHOU, ZIXUAN | 69d |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| NIO TECHNOLOGY (ANHUI) CO., LTD | 12 |
| NIO | 2 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2859 | 5 |
| 3645 | 3 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2635 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| 3662 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18588183 | VEHICLE HOOK CAPABLE OF PREVENTING REEL DISENGAGEMENT AND VEHICLE | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | KIM, SANG K | 3654 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18411370 | TRAFFIC LIGHT PERCEPTION METHOD, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE | Anhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. | KRETZER, CASEY L | 2635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18404090 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCALIZING ONE OR MORE OBJECTS WITHIN AN ENCLOSED ENVIRONMENT | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 66d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18532253 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING VEHICLE DRIVING TRAJECTORY, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND VEHICLE | Anhui NIO Autonomous Driving Technology Co., Ltd. | UNDERBAKKE, JACOB DANIEL | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 07, 2023 |
| 18312679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATED ENERGY REPLENISHMENT SUMMONING THROUGH PILE-STATION INTEGRATION | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | DIAO, M BAYE | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18306334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING IN PARKING VEHICLE IN PARKING POSITION | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | HERNANDEZ, MANUEL J | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 18297043 | BATTERY SWAP CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM, MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND BATTERY CHARGING AND SWAP STATION | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | GRANT, ROBERT J | 2859 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Apr 07, 2023 |
| 18191103 | TRUNK FLOOR MOUNTING STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | GUTMAN, HILARY L | 3612 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 105d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2023 |
| 18184722 | SAFETY PROTECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BATTERY CHARGING AND SWAP STATION, MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND BATTERY CHARGING AND SWAP STATION | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | ZHOU, ZIXUAN | 2859 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 18042742 | BATTERY CONVEYING SYSTEM, BATTERY SWAPPING STATION, AND BATTERY SWAPPING METHOD | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | HESS, DOUGLAS A | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Feb 23, 2023 |
| 18171856 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER SWAP STATION | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | TRISCHLER, JOHN T | 2859 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 18065231 | LIDAR APPARATUS, LIDAR DEVICE AND VEHICLE | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2022 |
| 18063758 | LIDAR APPARATUS, LIDAR DEVICE AND VEHICLE | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | HAWKINS, ZAKI KEHINDE | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2022 |
| 18054398 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING POINT CLOUD QUALITY OF LIDAR, AND APPARATUS | Nio Technology (Anhui) Co., Ltd. | BOLDA, ERIC L | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Nov 10, 2022 |
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