Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Ats Corporation

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (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%)
9
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only2 (22%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
3
Information Tech
33% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
67% 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.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ 1 81.0% +10.1%
HOLMES, JUSTIN 1 89.2% +9.6%
TRAN, VI N 1 46.5% +35.3%
VISCARRA, RICARDO I 1 63.9% +26.9%
CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE 1 85.0% +21.4%
ERDMAN, CHAD G 1 79.9% +18.5%
CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 1 46.0% +34.5%
MESHAKA, MAXWELL L 1 85.5% +12.5%
JARRETT, RYAN A 1 80.7% +7.7%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18159337 CONVEYOR SYSTEM AND MOVING ELEMENT WITH ARTICULATED BEARINGS MESHAKA, MAXWELL L 96d overdue
17963645 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMING COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINES JARRETT, RYAN A 8d
18399084 AUTOMATION SYSTEM WITH AUGMENTING CONVEYOR HOLMES, JUSTIN 9d
18899475 LINEAR MOTOR CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR HEAVY AND/OR LARGE PAYLOADS AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ 14d
18368990 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A BATTERY MODULE CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE 22d

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18159337 CONVEYOR SYSTEM AND MOVING ELEMENT WITH ARTICULATED BEARINGS MESHAKA, MAXWELL L 96d overdue
18340104 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYOR SYSTEM CONFIGURATION CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 89d overdue
18476768 AUTOMATED WORKPIECE TRANSFER SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTING THEREOF VISCARRA, RICARDO I 53d overdue
18461929 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC NEST AND ROUTING ADJUSTMENT ERDMAN, CHAD G 43d overdue
18512790 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING ANOMALIES IN A MANUFACTURING LINE TRAN, VI N 24d overdue
18899475 LINEAR MOTOR CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR HEAVY AND/OR LARGE PAYLOADS AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ 14d
18368990 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A BATTERY MODULE CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2116 2
3651 1
3655 1
2117 1
3657 1
3741 1
3627 1
3615 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18899475 LINEAR MOTOR CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR HEAVY AND/OR LARGE PAYLOADS AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ 3651 §102 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Sep 27, 2024
18399084 AUTOMATION SYSTEM WITH AUGMENTING CONVEYOR HOLMES, JUSTIN 3655 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Dec 28, 2023
18512790 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING ANOMALIES IN A MANUFACTURING LINE TRAN, VI N 2117 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18476768 AUTOMATED WORKPIECE TRANSFER SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTING THEREOF VISCARRA, RICARDO I 3657 §103 Final Rejection 53d overdue Pending Sep 28, 2023
18368990 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANUFACTURING A BATTERY MODULE CHABREYRIE, RODOLPHE ANDRE 3741 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18461929 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC NEST AND ROUTING ADJUSTMENT ERDMAN, CHAD G 2116 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2023
18340104 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVEYOR SYSTEM CONFIGURATION CHAMPAGNE, LUNA 3627 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jun 23, 2023
18159337 CONVEYOR SYSTEM AND MOVING ELEMENT WITH ARTICULATED BEARINGS MESHAKA, MAXWELL L 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 96d overdue Pending Jan 25, 2023
17963645 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMING COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL MACHINES JARRETT, RYAN A 2116 §102 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Oct 11, 2022

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