Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Automaton, Inc.

5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

5
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)

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%)
5
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only5 (100%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
4
Communications
80% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
20% 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.

50 h
Manual time on pending OAs
10 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
18 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WANG, JACK K 1 61.4% +12.6%
SHERWIN, RYAN W 1 66.5% +22.6%
MITCHELL, NATHAN A 1 73.3% +10.5%
BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O 1 62.4% +24.5%
DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18574811 SELF-INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR RFID TAG READERS DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 45d 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
18974612 ESTIMATING RFID TAG LOCATIONS FROM MULTIPLE DATA INPUTS SHERWIN, RYAN W 24d overdue
18982559 Querying RFID Tags Based on Tag Motion WANG, JACK K 15d overdue
18585919 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RFID-BASED RETAIL MANAGEMENT BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O 3d overdue
18789002 STATEFUL INVENTORY FOR MONITORING RFID TAGS MITCHELL, NATHAN A 20d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2686 1
2688 1
3627 1
2685 1
2681 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18982559 Querying RFID Tags Based on Tag Motion WANG, JACK K 2686 §103 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Dec 16, 2024
18974612 ESTIMATING RFID TAG LOCATIONS FROM MULTIPLE DATA INPUTS SHERWIN, RYAN W 2688 §103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2024
18789002 STATEFUL INVENTORY FOR MONITORING RFID TAGS MITCHELL, NATHAN A 3627 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Jul 30, 2024
18585919 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RFID-BASED RETAIL MANAGEMENT BLACK-CHILDRESS, RAJSHEED O 2685 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2024
18574811 SELF-INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR RFID TAG READERS DAI, GABRIELLE NICOLE 2681 §103 Non-Final OA 45d overdue Pending Dec 28, 2023

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