Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Agtonomy

Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Agtonomy has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket is distributed across 4 examiners and 4 art units, with each matter following a separate examination route.

LI, HELEN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner has a larger allocation in the reported data, so coordinated docket control should be paired with independent analysis of each art-unit and examiner context.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

4
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

1
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (25%)
3
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only3 (75%)
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (25%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
25% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
75% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

40 h
Manual time on pending OAs
8 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
14 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LI, HELEN 1 69.1% +13.5%
FOLLMAN, BRODIE J 1 74.1% +10.4%
MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S 1 25.8% +30.5%
CESE, KENNY A 1 75.2% +11.0%

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17647723 MULTI-OPERATIONAL LAND DRONE MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S 78d overdue
17647729 CROP VIEW AND IRRIGATION MONITORING CESE, KENNY A —

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17647723 MULTI-OPERATIONAL LAND DRONE MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S 78d overdue
18455269 OPERATOR DIRECTED AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM FOLLMAN, BRODIE J 22d
18440669 SYSTEMS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH RECURRENT OBJECTS LI, HELEN —
17647729 CROP VIEW AND IRRIGATION MONITORING CESE, KENNY A —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3665 1
3669 1
3663 1
2663 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18440669 SYSTEMS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH RECURRENT OBJECTS LI, HELEN 3665 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 13, 2024
18455269 OPERATOR DIRECTED AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM FOLLMAN, BRODIE J 3669 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Aug 24, 2023
17647723 MULTI-OPERATIONAL LAND DRONE MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S 3663 §103 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Jan 11, 2022
17647729 CROP VIEW AND IRRIGATION MONITORING CESE, KENNY A 2663 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 11, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Agtonomy have?

Agtonomy has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 4 art units and 4 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Agtonomy applications?

Helen Li has the most, with 1 of Agtonomy's pending office actions.

What technology area are Agtonomy's patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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