Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Automated Industrial Technologies, Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending matter is reviewed by a different individual. However, the examiners operate within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's technical subject matter is concentrated in an individual group. SINGH, KAVEL is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action.
Since there are pending office actions and distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for an assigned action. The concentration of examiners within the art unit suggests that while the personnel vary, the institutional standards of that specific art unit will apply to the company's prosecution in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. This arrangement allows the company to experience different examiner styles while remaining within the bounds of the art unit. Practitioners should look for commonalities in how the art unit handles the pending office actions, even though they are assigned to different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 1 | 81.9% | +9.5% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680102 | METHOD OF LOWERING A STREAM OF BOARDS | SINGH, KAVEL | 16d overdue |
| 18385066 | Method And Multi-Level Switchback Conveyor Apparatus For Product Singulation And Alignment | AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 26d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680102 | METHOD OF LOWERING A STREAM OF BOARDS | SINGH, KAVEL | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680102 | METHOD OF LOWERING A STREAM OF BOARDS | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18385066 | Method And Multi-Level Switchback Conveyor Apparatus For Product Singulation And Alignment | AWAIS, MUHAMMAD SUMRAIZ | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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