Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bear Robotics Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, representing a perfectly distributed portfolio. RHEE, ROY B is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because each action is assigned to a different examiner and a different art unit, there is no opportunity to leverage shared examiner insights or art unit trends between the 2 cases. Each prosecution effort is effectively independent.
The 2 distinct art units suggest that the company's robotics technology falls into different specialized classifications within the mechanical systems field. With only 2 pending office actions, the company's current footprint at the office is small but technically diverse. Practitioners must tailor their approach to the specific requirements of each of the 2 art units and the individual styles of the 2 examiners. There is no concentration of work that would allow for a unified strategy across the pending matters. This profile indicates a need for precise, case-specific management for each of the company's current applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEE, ROY B | 1 | 69.8% | +23.2% |
| CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 1 | 66.5% | +48.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19473341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOT | RHEE, ROY B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19473341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOT | RHEE, ROY B | — |
| 19134926 | SERVICE ROBOT RECOVERY FROM A BLOCKED PATH | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19473341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A ROBOT | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2025 |
| 19134926 | SERVICE ROBOT RECOVERY FROM A BLOCKED PATH | CHALHOUB, JEFFREY ROBERT | 3663 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
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