Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Agtonomy is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution workload is distributed among 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the presence of 3 distinct art units shows that these applications are being evaluated across several different technical departments. This lack of examiner or art unit overlap suggests that the company's patent strategy is broad and does not rely on a single relationship at the USPTO. The 3 pending office actions represent a diverse set of technical challenges.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is LI, HELEN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is divided among the available examiners. This distribution requires the applicant to address 3 unique sets of examiner preferences and art unit standards. The variety in 3 distinct art units and 3 distinct examiners suggests a diverse technical scope for the patents currently under review. Practitioners must manage these separate prosecution tracks to ensure the portfolio's success.
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.
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 | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LI, HELEN | 1 | 69.2% | +16.4% |
| FOLLMAN, BRODIE J | 1 | 73.9% | +10.6% |
| MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 1 | 27.1% | +31.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17647723 | MULTI-OPERATIONAL LAND DRONE | MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S | 78d overdue |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due 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 | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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