Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Apptronik, Inc. maintains 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct art units, showing that each pending matter is being handled in a different technical subgroup. Furthermore, the company is working with 3 distinct examiners, meaning that the pending office actions are assigned to different individuals.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TRIVEDI, ATUL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, TRIVEDI, ATUL shares the workload with the other examiners. This distribution across 3 distinct art units requires the company to manage separate prosecution environments simultaneously within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The lack of overlap between the assigned examiners suggests that the company's current patent applications cover various aspects of mechanical systems and e-commerce. Practitioners must prepare for 3 distinct sets of examiner expectations across the 3 distinct art units. The 1 pending office action assigned to TRIVEDI, ATUL is one of three active matters requiring attention in this portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRIVEDI, ATUL | 1 | 90.9% | +9.5% |
| FIX, THOMAS S | 1 | 72.1% | +16.3% |
| FERNSTROM, KURT | 1 | 65.8% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19162543 | Humanoid Robot Interface and Workflow | TRIVEDI, ATUL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839334 | DYNAMIC ROBOT ACTUATOR | FIX, THOMAS S | 120d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839334 | DYNAMIC ROBOT ACTUATOR | FIX, THOMAS S | 120d overdue |
| 18717073 | HUMANOID ROBOT | FERNSTROM, KURT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19162543 | Humanoid Robot Interface and Workflow | TRIVEDI, ATUL | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
| 18839334 | DYNAMIC ROBOT ACTUATOR | FIX, THOMAS S | 3618 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 120d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18717073 | HUMANOID ROBOT | FERNSTROM, KURT | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
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