Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
11 pending office actions • 3 clients • 9 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 11 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
VAN PELT, YI & JAMES LLP AND LUMINAR has 11 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and 7120 career applications. The current docket is presented alongside the application volume associated with the profile.
The resolved allowance rate is 93.72%, with an average of 3.69 office actions per allowance. These measures offer both an outcome view and an indication that resolved applications generally require several examination events before allowance.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 + other | 1 (9%) |
| §103 only | 4 (36%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (55%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELLNER, MARK | 2 | 90.4% | +8.6% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2 | 70.4% | +46.0% |
| CHEN, CHIA-LING | 1 | 52.5% | +40.3% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 1 | 80.0% | +12.6% |
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 1 | 76.5% | +30.2% |
| ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 1 | — | — |
| SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 1 | 73.9% | +27.5% |
| NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 1 | 85.5% | +15.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17898071 | OPTO-MECHANICAL PHASE SHIFTERS IN AN ACTIVE LIGHT DETECTION SYSTEM | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 77d |
| 18526327 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CHANNEL COUNT | HELLNER, MARK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 18333435 | SMALL APERTURE OPTICAL PERISCOPE FOR LIDAR | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 36d |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 36d |
| 18960941 | LIDAR RECEIVER OPTICAL LIMITER | HELLNER, MARK | — |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| 18514575 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER LASER DIODE SYSTEM | ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 36d |
| 17898071 | OPTO-MECHANICAL PHASE SHIFTERS IN AN ACTIVE LIGHT DETECTION SYSTEM | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 77d |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | CHEN, CHIA-LING | — |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | THATCHER, CLINT A | — |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | — |
| 18381982 | CALIBRATED OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Luminar | 9 |
| LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 1 |
| Luminartechnologies, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 6 |
| 4100 | 2 |
| 2828 | 2 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960941 | LIDAR RECEIVER OPTICAL LIMITER | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HELLNER, MARK | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | CHEN, CHIA-LING | 3645 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18409677 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVER CHANNELS IN COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | THATCHER, CLINT A | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2023 |
| 18526327 | LIDAR SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE CHANNEL COUNT | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HELLNER, MARK | 4100 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 18514575 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER LASER DIODE SYSTEM | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | ZERON CERRATO, JOSEPH NATANAEL | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18381982 | CALIBRATED OPTICAL PULSE GENERATION | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
| 18333435 | SMALL APERTURE OPTICAL PERISCOPE FOR LIDAR | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Jun 12, 2023 |
| 17954914 | Lidar Sensor with a Redundant Beam Scan | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | NASER, SANJIDA IFFAT | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17898071 | OPTO-MECHANICAL PHASE SHIFTERS IN AN ACTIVE LIGHT DETECTION SYSTEM | Luminartechnologies, Inc. | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Aug 29, 2022 |
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2828 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jul 22, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial93.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Luminar were allowed, across 7,120 applications in USPTO records.
3.69 office actions per allowed application on average.
11 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 9 examiners in 4 art units.
