Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Black-I Robotics Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are distributed across 3 examiners and 3 art units, creating three separate examination channels.
MELFI, OLIVIA MASON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should organize responses by application, examiner, and art unit, while coordinating only those technical positions that are genuinely shared.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1 | 57.4% | +27.4% |
| JOHNSON, VICKY A | 1 | 80.1% | +12.1% |
| JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 1 | 69.6% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614353 | AMR-Cart Attachment System | JOHNSON, VICKY A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614325 | Hot Swappable Power System | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 149d overdue |
| 18614353 | AMR-Cart Attachment System | JOHNSON, VICKY A | — |
| 18189070 | Robotic Arm System | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1729 | 1 |
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614325 | Hot Swappable Power System | MELFI, OLIVIA MASON | 1729 | §103 | Final Rejection | 149d overdue | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18614353 | AMR-Cart Attachment System | JOHNSON, VICKY A | 3617 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18189070 | Robotic Arm System | JOYCE, WILLIAM C | 3618 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialBlack-I Robotics Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Olivia Mason Melfi has the most, with 1 of Black-I Robotics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
