Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
17 pending office actions • 3 clients • 15 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 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. 12 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 (6%) |
| §103 only | 7 (41%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (53%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 2 | 77.0% | +30.9% |
| EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 2 | 67.4% | +50.0% |
| CHEN, CHIA-LING | 1 | 48.6% | +41.4% |
| THATCHER, CLINT A | 1 | 80.4% | +11.1% |
| HELLNER, MARK | 1 | 90.5% | +8.4% |
| SLAUGHTER, ETHAN JAKOB | 1 | — | — |
| NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 1 | 23.7% | +49.2% |
| RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 1 | 57.9% | +50.0% |
| XIAO, YUQING | 1 | 62.1% | +26.0% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 11.1% | +8.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689207 | HYBRID PULSED/COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 60d overdue |
| 18097002 | LIDAR WINDOW BLOCKAGE DETECTION | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 44d overdue |
| 17988252 | Lidar System with Gyroscope-Aided Focus Steering | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 38d overdue |
| 18093055 | Lidar system with Wavelength-Tunable Light Source | XIAO, YUQING | 31d overdue |
| 18095457 | LIDAR GROUND PLANE DETECTION USING PROJECTED AND FILTERED DATA | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 4d overdue |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17689207 | HYBRID PULSED/COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 60d overdue |
| 18097002 | LIDAR WINDOW BLOCKAGE DETECTION | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 44d overdue |
| 18093055 | Lidar system with Wavelength-Tunable Light Source | XIAO, YUQING | 31d overdue |
| 18095457 | LIDAR GROUND PLANE DETECTION USING PROJECTED AND FILTERED DATA | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 4d overdue |
| 17871230 | NANOSECOND PULSED WAVELENGTH AGILE LASER | EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH | 23d |
| 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 | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Luminar | 15 |
| LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 1 |
| Luminartechnologies, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 10 |
| 2828 | 2 |
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18600211 | DETERMINING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY ASBORBING BLOCKAGE ON A LIDAR SYSTEM | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | CHEN, CHIA-LING | §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 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 | |
| 18396594 | SELF-ALIGNED TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR COHERENT MECHANICAL LIDAR | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | §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 |
| 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 |
| 18097002 | LIDAR WINDOW BLOCKAGE DETECTION | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | NGUYEN, RACHEL NICOLE | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 18095457 | LIDAR GROUND PLANE DETECTION USING PROJECTED AND FILTERED DATA | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | RICHTER, KARA MARIE | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 18093055 | Lidar system with Wavelength-Tunable Light Source | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | XIAO, YUQING | 3645 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2023 |
| 17988252 | Lidar System with Gyroscope-Aided Focus Steering | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Nov 16, 2022 |
| 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 |
| 17852890 | LIDAR WITH INTELLIGENT ORIENTATION | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | HULKA, JAMES R | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 139d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17752954 | ADJUSTABLE SCAN PATTERNS FOR LIDAR SYSTEM | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | May 25, 2022 |
| 17736887 | DUAL-WAVELENGTH LIDAR SYSTEM WITH COINCIDENCE DETECTION AND PULSE ENCODING | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | BAGHDASARYAN, HOVHANNES | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | May 04, 2022 |
| 17689207 | HYBRID PULSED/COHERENT LIDAR SYSTEM | LUMAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | FRITCHMAN, JOSEPH C | 3645 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2022 |
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