Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ats Automation Tooling Systems Inc.

4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

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

Response Deadline Pressure

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.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)

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.

0
Hard (0%)
4
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only4 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
1
Information Tech
25% of docket
0
Communications
0% 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
SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 1 66.8% +33.0%
CHIN, PAUL T 1 71.6% +15.3%
HARP, WILLIAM RAY 1 79.0% +10.6%
HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 1 27.2% +24.8%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17120343 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING A TRAINING EVENT HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 50d overdue

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
17710129 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POWER TO A MOVING ELEMENT ON A CONVEYOR AND ACCESSORY DRIVEN BY POWER PROVIDED TO A MOVING ELEMENT HARP, WILLIAM RAY 72d overdue
17894846 HIGH-FLEXIBILITY GRIPPER CHIN, PAUL T 71d overdue
17120343 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING A TRAINING EVENT HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 50d overdue
17991934 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH SYNCHRONOUS ELEMENTS SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 30d overdue

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2116 1
3654 1
3653 1
3625 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
17991934 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS WITH SYNCHRONOUS ELEMENTS SKRZYCKI, JONATHAN MICHAEL 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Nov 22, 2022
17894846 HIGH-FLEXIBILITY GRIPPER CHIN, PAUL T 3654 §103 Non-Final OA 71d overdue Pending Aug 24, 2022
17710129 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POWER TO A MOVING ELEMENT ON A CONVEYOR AND ACCESSORY DRIVEN BY POWER PROVIDED TO A MOVING ELEMENT HARP, WILLIAM RAY 3653 §103 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Mar 31, 2022
17120343 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING A TRAINING EVENT HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2020

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